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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Atlantic to begin his studies as a Marshall Scholar. The Marshall ... . It's a long way from Moultrie, GA, to Cambridge, MA, and an even longer ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get ... was pretty funny. A shadowrun is a challenge you beat to get into a ... 't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  myself to breathe. Sometimes I get a meditation video out to help me accept ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I ... to understand that it takes physical presence to build a home away from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself ... . I’d say I’m doing pretty well on this. Sidequest 4: Get a cool

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow ... whenever I wanted to, read a book, go hiking in the Alps, get to know an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  outside. I’m trying to get nine hours of sleep a night, even if there’s work ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three months—but, eventually, you’ll get there. This piece of advice is a little

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... that’s a bit more complicated than to “stop being affected by stereotypes ... advice to my sisters. I am a girl, which I think is pretty cool. I get

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... end in itself, but a means by which to build a better world, and I ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  hard to come by these days. So I decided to follow a religion, the ... somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... nights when I didn’t even want to think about walking across campus to get

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to ... an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... about ten percent of freshmen change their minds; they have a chance to ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... up the slopes to read a [annotation note="some favorites I read this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024