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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  furry feet make it hard to walk. I have a whole new appreciation for ... at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off ... other MIT engineers to get the AC working, haha!) Then, to give Tim his

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  , I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most ... make sure that those questions that you do have get answered by students, faculty, and anyone else you manage to meet. Rule #1: If you're paying for

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  changed SO much since then. at MIT, you don't really get time to read unless ... . Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — i don't feel qualified to summarize ... interested!   Learning New Things hey, i have time to learn new things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  afford to get better at it, and I know this class will be good for me. It ... : I'm trying to get into shape for the socially distanced half marathon ... learn to be pseudo-law students by writing case briefs. A good friend of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  check in, watching older students smiling widely when they get to put ... them plan and plan over the best thing to do only minutes later, how fast ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just — literally just — in time for my flight to Denver and 2 hour-long midnight uber ride through 33-degree sleet and rain en route to Colorado Springs for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  , waiting for my turn to sit. if you’re going for the first time, get the ... curry and donkatsu fills your nose and you smile. are you going to get ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  managed to get someone to fill in for the clinician. I was given some ... , I emailed and I messaged people, trying to get our first game ready by ... Floorpi. With plans for East Campus to get renovated next summer, Floorpi

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  enough to get to Killarney early. Alas.  I was stressed for parts of the ... get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed ... ’ll get some work done tonight. But first I want to record the highlights of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  for it through a Google form (FYI: most MIT classes you can just register for, no questions asked). Gosh, I essentially wrote a love letter to ... pose for class a few times! It was really cool to work with real people

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  have all semester to CAD our designs, CNC molds for them, injection mold ... fish Tui and La from Avatar. Shout-out to Audrey for designing the fish ... due to carpal tunnel. I bought a sketchbook for the first time since

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  don't think of or look to the UA as a mechanism for solving them. I ... to get involved in student government, because the only student ... the time. What eventually motivated me to get involved with the UA was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  new things to do. I'm definitely glad I stayed for IAP--some opt to take ... first few days were reserved for practice and to get acclimated to the ... event ended in order to get back for my 6.177 group presentation, and didn

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not ... , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  finally understood I had to get out of my neighborhood I got into one little ... Jersey. I worked for RU for three years and I realized that I wanted to ... every type of background from New Jersey). I look forward to lending

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for ... to me, compared to parks in Boston – and delicious sushi for lunch, I ... , and proceeded to sit and wait calmly for fifteen minutes) and made it

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  decision for me until I get to campus. The word on the street is that yes ... inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An ... -requisite to have been a cheerleader to try out for the MIT squad. No, you don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel ... “suspected terrorist” for up to 14 days without warrant. And the bill is ... , every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  to get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. One tip ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in something or by defining ourselves with certain characteristics. For example ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011