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• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  coordinator (basically a guidance counselor) to review my college application ... supplemental essays was gross, since I figured I was just going to go to a state ... .org. A series of clicks led to me opening a MyMIT account and filling out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... eventually I'd have to at least meet a few new people. And as orientation week ... waiting for class to begin. The magic of making friends, of course, is that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think ... situated close to the Cambridge / Boston divide, there's also a number of other places to drop some dough for a bite to eat. I'll leave the fun of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i picked up a brown paper bag with a grilled chicken sandwich, and sat down ... engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of ... /directors of the movie, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, were there to do a Q&A ... to watch the movie! As for the movie itself, I sobbed like a little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way ... . I'll have time to watch TV. This is a big deal, guys. Be excited for ... ? Because they have a physics project that they're going to be working on all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  really a place where people go to make friends, though, which is a shame ... furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  unlikely to have a real, direct impact. MIT gave me that outlet. Here, I can do things that will make a real difference. When I first wrote this, I ... don't think of or look to the UA as a mechanism for solving them. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense ... instance, a tortilla can either make or break a meal: corn tortillas bring

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  , although Hamlet himself did make a clear effort to apply more modern speech ... So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... . As a purveyor of primarily wrapped items, they're even nice enough to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most ... love the word nerd, I was quick to post a reply that said something about nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... graduate from MIT and go to work at a Fortune 500 company or a nonprofit, or
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... together. I was so surprised I was so easily able to form a friend group ... little brave to post this on a public platform where any of them can read

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  first three weeks of IAP, making for a nice 5-week vacation away from ... 's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... to off-campus events about the humanities, and generally making sure

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  day and managed to snag a hamburger before the residents began to notice ... the Cupcake Making Event for Women at MIT: Then a snapshot of the ... ended up not even making it to the COOP because I had planned to stock up

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... , my determination to put aside art for more "serious" schooling had a ... , I've been making serious efforts to look into film schools and take as

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  a Man friend who related to a lot of these points, which makes me ... knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... unprompted emails. The first one was to a [annotation note="I lost my silver

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019