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  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  friends and I realized that the few extra dollars spent on getting a PODS ... brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  of where you are on your spiritual journey, come and pose your hard ... 's just so hard to get through a whole book in a non-native language. It ... at asklaura at mit dot edu. I will reply to your email, but I can make

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  I'm kind of iffy on, seeing as it's really hard for me to pick up new ... messages checking in. ("Don't forget to take your Vitamin D, Camille, it ... to do a post on my skincare routine, but unsure if there's interest. Hm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  're required to make every call, I gave the new third rider tips on how to hold ... .S. When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to ... on Thursday I made my way from 2.007 lecture to the second floor of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  closing in on me as they laughed and pointed. My initial instinct was to ... I just kept moving, and each time a new crowd started to gather I would walk to a new place. I repeated this sequence over and over, even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  . Expectations are higher at MIT. You are expected to do a lot on your own. If you want more examples, you have to read them on your own time. In class, we ... (family, social drama, getting sick, etc.) take a greater toll on your time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  satisfied with your sentences. Then move on to Step 6. I actually did ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... have contributed to your community, whether in your family, the classroom

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... something like "Dear Anna, Good luck on your J-Lab presentation tomorrow! I ... of chocolate chips while at Shaw's, and invited me over to New House 3

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  was to write a letter reflecting on what we had learned, and I decided ... 'd like to go out on submission this fall." Essentially, I was supposed to ... wasted my entire sophomore year on a project that was never going to sit on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... , you often have to interview at your school and compete for one of your ... that but sometimes i need to remind her that failing just made me get up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  , getting permission to be or do something new. [carousel image1 ... instead of drowning in it. On not being afraid to make mistakes and get ... another one in actually seeing those places. I did try to get out when I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... done and knew that I had to get tested. I had my blood drawn and sent to ... to terms with destiny, deciding to get surgery and when, figuring out

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  ; those things—they’re words on your laptop monitor, or on your phone. us EC ... teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... about him to add anything new to everyone else’s descriptions of him

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  don’t throw up. If you keep doing that you’re going to throw up. Don ... you don’t throw up. “No,” another friend said before I could get to it ... books belonged to whom, and they’d get all mixed. When they inevitably did

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... out supplies, building bathrooms, and helping to treat people on this ... 9-to-5 that I couldn’t quite put a finger on until my first day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on ... the test that makes you look best. Q. What score should I get on the ... January tests on a case-by-case basis. I hope that covers most of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... books I want to read into my suitcase, then put on my velvet tracksuit, and finally hopped on an Uber to the airport with my parents. [caption

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... (Daniel and Ben) getting worked like hounds to finish an IC (integrated

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025