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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... learning new things. But I've never been the type of person to, say, read a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  , but also a call to action. No doubt, we wonder how young people with so much talent and promise could end their own lives. In struggling to make ... treatment make it possible for more students with such problems to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  that really captured my attention as a naive 5 year old. 6th Grade to 8 ... listened to a lot during this phase: Sugar High - Approaching Nirvana ... 7k can't remember.) As expected, here's the bands I listened to. A lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  . Afterwards, let's go to Luigi's and you can paint me there. Make it a good one ... 't remember making a --" At this point, he was abruptly interrupted by a sharp ... to...?" Luciana glanced up hopefully. "Oh! Amore mio, I promised you a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there ... , what makes this so special? why is it the end of the world? Well in a ... The Unified Theory, a.k.a Physics. That's right, it seeks to finish

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  thought should be able to provide a letter, however they are not able to do ... unable to write you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of ... do to help us (and you) is make explicit in their letters any
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  fresh ozone, rip the bond in half to make two new double bonds, stick an ... scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  left was to make the sprint from Maseeh Hall to the Student Center to use ... has been as close to a Hell Week as I’ve ever been. You might be wondering, "what is a Hell Week anyway?" Excellent question. According to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... since you could often make nerdy references to really niche indie games or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most ... to realize that I was getting better as a runner somewhere around 9 ... understand it. I'm sure I've improved at a lot of things since coming to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels ... animation will play over it! That semester, we both got to make our own murals ... -AR chairs, teaching anyone who wants to learn, how to make their own AR

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  ridden place. As a child I was always too afraid to go outside when it was ... grades, and after the loss of my Uncle, I started to look to food as a ... normally ate, and started to have a fixation on eating “healthy” foods. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the ... propose a way to spend Simmons funds. Sometimes it’s for things like

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  designed to work as a complementary major for students majoring in science ... think and comment publicly on science and technology, i.e. to be a public ... this fall: Gives a broad understanding of what it means to produce

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts ... tenors, it ended up being a really pretty piece to sing. https ... called Curveship.js, which allows you to view a story in [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  make yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make ... . The talk inspired me to do a computer project with my high school teacher, which I made a video demo and sent it to Professor Maes. She was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more entertaining than making a pile of clothes to give to Goodwill while singing ... . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any ... procrastinate until the last minute. Doing this gives your brain a chance to ... made you decide to put all this effort into a transfer application? Don

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• 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 / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese ... meet new people, and trying new things - the better I adjusted to a new ... time do you have of making new friends and getting to know new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008