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• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  just made me completely incapable of making a single post for so long. I ... was always trying to process too many bits of life at once. It's a ... determined to get good grades and maintain a healthy social life, so I traded

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat until 4 pm, sometimes a college student has to take some responsibility ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  ." I'm awkwardly posed next to them, hovering over them by a couple ... 't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to ... it to do this? Make something up. "We should definitely meet up soon

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to ... cheaply available. To build that speaker, Gedion used a soldering iron to ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore ... . Others wanted to go where most of their friends were going. I and a handful

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about ... , if you want to be a good scientist or engineer, it's important to learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you ... minutes to get a snack, or walk around. I come back, and read what I wrote ... to take form is enough to make them disappear - Riddikulus! - but more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  verge of making a purchase that will someday cause your roommate to leave ... pixels, I'm still unconvinced. By then, I was ready to call it a day ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... an entry this is going to make! Well, it turns out that MIT is such an ... , but I'd still like to paraphrase a particularly excellent quote from Voo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  making the syntax way more complicated than necessary. It’s just a way to ... open the window by epsilon” Translation: “I’m going to open the window a ... , but rather numbered. Or that we introduce our majors by number (“I’m a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be ... you to via email. For a data nerd like me, this is basically the best ... will get a lot cooler to play with as time goes on. Some of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  work. I applied to this UROP because I wanted to work in a Real Science ... " and "let's make a mousetrap car with cardboard and duct tape." Still, my ... become a surgeon. She stopped after I said I wanted to cut up rockets

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class ... Hamentashen picture, standing up.) After a humorous introduction by Wolfe and a ... plate and applied his physics knowledge to explain why latke is a “

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  they can, that they won’t have a chance to do their best because of all ... to help us understand how you might have been impacted by COVID-19 or ... made a difference in our process – who you are, your approach to life and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid-flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there ... because it gives me a legitimate reason to use my crayons. Otherwise I just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  sadness by not responding to anyone for a week and playing a LOT of ... make myself fall asleep. When I came to Cambridge, I made it a couple ... below if any of you would like to try it. I am by no means a professional

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  McCullough Jr.). And “if you ever think you are too small to make a ... to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I ... psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  , I wrote that I like making lists. I thought that lists make a great ... onto a page, externalizing them, and thus making them seem somehow less ... used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to make changes to be happy with your situation. I think it helps a lot ... and ability to make an impact, and I could see myself starting a company ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017