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• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  . It almost makes me want to stop writing my usual blog entries about ... until midnight running experiments. Maybe it's just a testament to campus ... equipment." adjective -- pertaining to one's UROP "My UROP professor gave me a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  , was not true. To make matters worse, during the reception afterwards in ... application process, and financial aid. And in order to have a good amount of ... 'm constantly trying to do a balancing act between telling the stories that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  a moment, to make them truly, deeply feel something. I want my writing ... to make other people's lives better, to be a kind collaborator and to ... expectations and the stakes feel higher, in a way that makes it hard to keep

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... makes MIT home to me, but these last few weeks I have had to come to terms that a lot of them are going on to bigger and better thing. So when

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to ... a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at ... found himself stricken with a case of influenza, exhibiting such symptoms

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... gave me. Because I grew up around Chicago and went to college and worked

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... decision your gut really wants to make- but practices like these help draw

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  make letters display, and his goal is to make a display board out of an ... to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a ... think it worked out to around $4.50 per person, which is a steal

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  curve and certainly looks real enough - if decidedly tricky to make. Dr ... parabaloid, a shape well known to mathematicians - or something very close to ... to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative ... hopes and dreams? Do you have the initiative and courage to make them ... to include them, make sure you still cover the list. Before you start

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make it better. when i’m having a good day, i buy myself a coffee to ... a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the ... (only about a third to a half of whom are here for the summer, mostly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  , Tiantian '13 can make a Beijing Roast Duck from scratch (SERIOUSLY! can you ... , you'll be able to help us out, learn a recipe or two, and enjoy a ... maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  with the decision-making process. In High School, I did a lot with FIRST ... like a shame to not try anything new. So, I had to adopt some kind of ... /No Record is a great time to do this – to adopt the “I want to be busy, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  's thoughts on if a topic would make a good blog or how to structure a ... times when I was tearing my hair out trying to make a blog less boring, or ... Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... hours a week on campus, that should be enough money to make it through a ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... !I had many, many, many lazy days as a rising freshman about to enter ... exception I make to unbridled laziness is making enough money to make me happy

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life ... is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but ... that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of ... 've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024