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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... to feel just a wee bit hungry. Eager to make new friends!   ... 1. Reply to random email asking for Tim volunteers. As soon as it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  myself to someone new, I get the opportunity to meet myself again. I know ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  because there is so much to be done at any given time. Get excited for all ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... -based, so you will only pay as much as your circumstances allow you to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  by Nina L. ‘19, about her Friday night. Tonight Lujan and I went to Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

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  No worries! You can unlock your account and reset your password by clicking, “Forgot your password?” You need the email address you used to create your account and date of birth. If you enter and submit these fields
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  when to take your vacation or start a new job. I may never again feel ... classes you want to take. You discuss which ones and why with your advisor and then they approve your course selection to officially register you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  optimization problems by Sunday.”[annotation note="to be fair, we do also read ... new, cool sensor applications. I’m vaguely intrigued by doing a sensor ... ="communication-intensive class in your major -- you need two to graduate, and they're usually lab

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  to find new methods to approach problems." 21L.003 (as taught by Ina ... gratifying to connect with your region of origin through a deep and analytical ... were a great way to get back into watching theater productions." 6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  clubs, extracurriculars, and other opportunities to get involved as a ‘24 ... "]extrude[/annotation]or [annotation note="remember your calculus y'all (just kidding you do not need to ... in the X, Y, or Z direction to make it. You have to make NEW planes

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  interesting response to me, because I get it. I usually respond to this ... thoughts to myself. I’d get lost in my thoughts on teaching and math, and ... Exam) is. It's okay to talk about your interests– you can bring up your

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  was that Jony had to draw by hand what they planned to make. “I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... an inferior engineering result simply because you're reluctant to hurt

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  stuff in your ice cream. And then see what happens to you after you eat it ... building. Which is pretty much what I was hoping to get out of this UROP ... , getting stuck in the elevator due to aforementioned obesity, plummeting to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  applying to, but fortunately, the deadlines and requirements vary by country ... impression I have is that not getting an internship has much more to do with the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  him when he gets deferred. i want to tell him, hey! i struggle, and have ... dimension in which i get to know people. but that meant that all weekend i ... to get them all done after the weekend, even if it meant grinding them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  might add: please allow your interviewer some time to get back to you ... applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular ... are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  people's confused, surprised expressions. You're the one that gets to watch ... things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... by simply listening to and recording their voices. Rosa, pictured

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  approval from the PI, which gave me around 48 hours to accumulate all the new ... confidence that I would be able to finish everything by her deadline, which was ... hours of sleep; maybe you get pneumonia and have to drop some classes. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  she had been sitting. There was new grease to pick up, a new stench to ... . Concord ate carefully, but not carefully enough to avoid getting grease on ... risen from their beds when the indoor humidity had dropped to forty

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... you feel from your classmates or your family. The support you get from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007