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• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to ... moving to another dorm next year. So to sum up, don't get tunnel vision; your dream school most certainly isn't going to be flawless. I'm here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  . Brush your hair everyday. Clean your room once a week. Get seven to eight ... . Brush your hair everyday. Clean your room once a week. Get seven to eight ... able to recreate that moment, or if that was the last-first time I’d get

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . That’s part of why you were able to get this precious meeting time. So ... anecdote and convey your dedication to your research. Back ... , if you prove to be a useful resource people will come back to you, your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  Google, to the Kushal Foundation itself that was founded by pioneers of ... occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  you have any questions you want to ask live, this is your chance! We ... STARS’ partner colleges get together to host a virtual college fair for ... about these colleges, plus get any questions they have answered. While you’re

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  sometimes, you don't have to be better at what you're doing. You can sing, or ... shame in sharing your work. Leave the pursuit of excellence to those who want to get better. That's something that I failed to grasp for so long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  ’t have a 5.0 leaving MIT, doesn’t mean you’re going to get nowhere ... out. Maybe you're planning on pulling an all-nighter tonight and to ... 's okay for you to struggle as well. Head to gym after your first final and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  be weeks where you feel like you're not good enough. Just remember to ... lot of work, to relax sometimes and hang out with your friends. It makes ... certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write your college essays. I just finished working with the MITES and E2 kids so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  I graduate and don't get to be a rockstar blogger anymore. Ack!) So ... that and I had to share. Tensor! Ha! Get it? Don't worry if you don't, a ... and went downstairs to get some breakfast. (Wait, downstairs? Check it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  you want to grab one. You guys had me laughing out loud with your ... to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini ... thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things ... about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  month. You all need to decide where you’re going to college next year ... best to make this decision post-CPW when you've formed your own opinions ... enough to sway me 5. AND we get them for free when we declare. Course 7

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  of what you're going to get is going to be camera-phone pictures. I ... , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures ... was able to get a lovely chicken and egg dish, much like the one that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own ... me and show me fears Wasted, without sacrifice I lay to rest your ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  from California, I didn’t get many chances to go back home and see my ... get what you want at a certain time, but you always get the chance to ... guest post series* Theory: If we were to use the World Cup as an analogy

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025