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• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  still didn’t know how to stop making my scatterbrained little mistakes ... to drive or make small talk or do any of the million mundane and just ... don't know how to stop making my careless little mistakes. Everyone’s a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  as a model to see what these genes actually do by knocking them out in ... your years in the lab make you immune to normal chemicals...? o ... "practiced" by pipeting water from a beaker to another beaker for a good half

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  adults who want to live vicariously through me, as if I'm being pursued by ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... MIT doesn't make me feel the academic imposter syndrome everyone

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  statements by department heads to affirm commitments to student health ... , a cover letter by Reif himself. Why had MIT gone to such lengths to ... office and asked MIT staff, faculty, and students how to make sure specific

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  , surrounded by tall, looming pine trees, listening to the tinny sound of the ... to me and i learn better from making these sorts of mistakes. with ... need to make with a certain color. once, i accidentally left a box of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  figures out how to apply them so, now that I know inducing this makes that ... entered the field of biology in order to make or find something that can ... purpose of making a profit and getting drugs that will make it to patients

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  figured that I didn't really *need* to join in order to make games. I did ... time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake ... semester, when I made more reasonable choices, I would have more time to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  from caffeine, consumed in excess to make up for too little sleep. Then ... 'll burn holes you don't yet know how to fix — but not too quickly, or else ... the mill and lathe by making cute little flashlights. I came in wearing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... last four whole days) has been consumed by psets, it seems only appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... denotes we were too poor to have any more than one bag of chips. Most

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  she was done laying her eggs and decided to rest up a bit before making ... she did, she began to very quickly shuffle her way back to the ocean. It ... paths she left to go from shore to the spot she choose to make her nest

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  to stumble along the pages of a dictionary or encyclopedia, you derive ... common question that emerges on the blogs, to be answered by both ... ?" By aiming to answer that - and having it show in everything you do

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  I’ll write about them. But for now, I’m going to go walk by the river ... This Monday, as many Mondays go, felt like a terrible start to my ... like 5 hours of sleep from making my  [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when ... blog would never get written - so here goes. I'm also going to stray from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and ... , the steps involved in making a hand turkey are as follows: 1.) Stock up ... use to trace with) on construction paper. 4.) Cut along the lines. 5

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  up as a pencil on the Entries page it was probably red-flagged by half ... 'm going to be honest. BUT, I'm also going to try really hard to not make ... longer welcomed with open arms by the Greek community because, to be honest

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  birds, took my first creative writing class, and learned how to make a ... taught movie-making to 7th-9th graders using iMovie. Later, I added music ... . I used to make one of the campers who played the trumpet play it every

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  most of my commute to class looking up, absorbed by the scintillating ... This is my favorite poem. Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space By ... change") so quickly that it literally surpasses my belief, charges right

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  marathon for you to run, and then your parents won't have to make the trek ... around the woods in Hopkinton at 6 AM trying to sneak by cops. If you ... steel-cut oatmeal (introduced to me by my personal hero Alton Brown) and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective ... happy and I make the choice to do those things — first because I deserve ... career or classes to mark the passage of time. For me, that is pages read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016