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• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I ... advice - to get a pair of fresh eyes to look at your work, when you've hit ... problem-solve on your own is important, equally important is the ability to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... of these things. I ask you to answer honestly, and move on to the next ... On college applications, you’ll probably come across a question like

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  , but you should also be prepared to survive on your own if and when they ... new projects to work on, and why, despite my current courseload being ... close friend to understand how overreliance on a small set of people leads

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  mechanisms which control anxiety. To do this, she performs brain surgery on ... summer in order to stay on campus. However, the opportunity arose for me to ... on the side. This past summer, I actually got to make my cousin’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... above: the MIT blogs had a huge influence on my decision to apply to and ... think about MIT every time a new post goes up on Stanford Med blog, and it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  HackMIT, in our 2017 theme: Hack to the Future. On social media, the ... had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and

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

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  little breath of sunshine to your day between cramming your 18.02 homework and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the kitchen makes people stop on the way to their room and chat about their day

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  good to clarify...']digress.[/annotation] This was on one of the days ... upperclassman. You're seen as someone who's supposed to have it together. Truth is ... existence. Humans, on the other hand, are put on this Earth and have to forge

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  the Movies" here on the blog on Monday. Your picture will get bonus ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  promise that attacking people is not going to help. Funnel your energy into ... -13 minutes prior to that, so be on the lookout. Good luck, pre-congrats to everybody who gets accepted, and happy Pi day! If your letter says

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... burned out and ready to move on, and although I still talk to the younger ... . Life is hard; get used to it. And then I came to MIT, and I realized

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  mine at MIT was really interesting — and it was good to get a new ... used it to draw or just generally fuck around on the internet. I don ... Kinneret my top song because I saw a video that said if you listened to it on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... be a good time to reflect on what a freshman fall over Zoom has looked ... notifications on, is exhausting. If I’m already online all the time, going to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  . Basically, I want to go home. And I never plan on going to a hospital ever ... I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer on Wednesday or do things to distract yourself from your computer. I ... you for working hard on your applications. I really hope that everyone

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  getting to your next destination on the MBTA bus. Kellen has EXQUISITE taste ... if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  already, right?" We evaluate the applications on a rolling basis: that is to ... returned to the office with a full stomach and proceeded to work on applications for most of the rest of the day, listening to my new music. Tomorrow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... figure out how to put everything together myself, after having relied on ... the concert i arrived six hours early with some alumni to set up the new

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was babysitting!") 2. You get to play with light-sabers and Nerf guns and not even ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though only on the hard sand because I get tired easily on the soft stuff. If I ... to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008