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  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... chair, talking with myself to work through some thoughts. Moments of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... ways a video, and you don't get to see still images all too often. Unless ... semester, my lab partner decided to read that blog in front of me, to my mild

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine ... no closer to achieving it, I realized that I would need some ... signed up for the course this fall. I also wanted to take this class

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  peace, an outlet to make myself feel whole and sane. I’m excited to ... get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  entirely, I'm taking this time to recap what I did for the past several months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most ... -size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... other days, except my boyfriend flew up from Georgia to see me. Later, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... overthinking. You end up having to sleep due to fatigue and most likely will wake up with a clear mind and higher spirits, ready to face the day. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  stories from anyone willing to share them. Cheers to everyone who collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to ... to 18! There is really one more reason I wanted to talk about Splash

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the ... , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving the school enough flexibility to schedule everyone's exams so that none

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... (delicious) food, exchange ideas, and work together to build exciting tech ... matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... direct communication helps those of you who weren’t able to visit during ... survey sent to all the dorm mailing lists asking the residents who feels at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle ... , New Jersey, and New Hampshire. We're travelling by plane to Seattle and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You ... a mix of anxious premeds and kids trying to convince their parents that going to grad school can be just as rewarding as going to med school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  students will often proceed to ISEF-affiliated regional fairs, and then state ... to attend ISEF as finalists and present their work to expert judges to ... ) May 13, 2016 (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know ISEF existed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016