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• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  Record, implying that it isn't reported on your transcript at all (for what ... pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the ... doing 5 that they released specifically as "past exam problems". At a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... IAP or summer that I did full-time work, I arrived at the office at 7 a ... -defining laziness. At the core of all this anxiety was the biting fear that my mentor

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  attention. My summer at home, before and after Alaska, was mellow. Restful ... rest at the roots of the ecosystem we are all a part of: generosity ... , which places humans at the top and plants at the bottom. Instead, in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  real as anything I knew at that time. Two years later I felt pulled ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that ... one of my longest friends at MIT through this research. it just ended up

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  guests at Kenyon College, noted author David Foster Wallace began… “There ... fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys ... eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome ... exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help ... students or students at other colleges). This application is open to all MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  on the HIGHWAY in Maine this is INSANE" "Oh my god" the adventure At 9 ... trying to book the same car at the same time. It was insane. Cait and I ... to have friends eager to go on excursions like these. At 12am, Isaac

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  . Like at all. Last semester, I bought a cassette player, an old landline ... spend a considerable amount at Cheapo Records, a record store super close ... better look at it, but found a steel anchor attached to the back that tied

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... particular, this means the aurora borealis/australis are at their brightest ... ="alignnone" width="300"] Sunrise at the harbor in Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  !" I brought a little pink picture grabber I bought last fall at a ... that I spend too much money at, shown here: [carousel image1 ... of them (#4 and #6, the only ones they had) and listened to them at the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  you are looking at photos of course. During one of my classes this ... o_o, but it was also cool looking back at that blog showing the ... .   5/5/23Classic red line. I was at Kendall, running late to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... at Maseeh people for living so close to campus when you have to walk ... . And if that gets boring, you can even use all four limbs at once

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you ... bloggers (i.e. no prospective students or students at other colleges). This ... orientation if at all possible. If this sounds like something you might like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It ... you end up next. In literary practice, bookends are matching scenes at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  , you're stuck processing too much information all at once. a manual ... emotions can be annoying at best and a grueling fight at worst. do take care

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for ... kidney donor; at any awards ceremony where the winner is expected to give a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... stressful, at the same time. i'm taking 48 units this semester, and when i ... friday morning office hours to beg for help before it's due at 5 pm. but it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  occupy my time. This trend continued at MIT (what, you mean MIT students ... unfortunately, "just a few hours" is not short enough to start a book at 11.30 pm when you have class at 9 am :( This summer, though, things are different

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... first is I’m three days away from my first day at my [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  random things that I have learned since moving to Beantown.  Beantown at ... . The cold months will last at least from October through March. If you ... there is at least one Dunkin Donuts every block or so. Dunkin is not just

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022