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• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  as a student and/or community member." At MIT, we do have strong ... simply explain it. You also don't have to do this at all —  this is just something you can do if you feel at all worried or anxious about what we might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note ... how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is ... high schooler with limited experiences and no clue how to handle life at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on at the same time, or the summer camp I was running. This year, I ... presentation on Friday, and I generally felt okay at the end of the week. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  isn’t to say that I haven’t made friends, not at all. I’ve made a couple ... . The main problem, I think, is that Zoom fatigue is real. Staring at a ... classes, emailing professors, doing random errands, the last thing I want at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  post about how I’ve been managing is coming at some point, but that point might be after the end of the semester']managing everything[/annotation]at ... impressive to myself and who I am as a person at this particular moment

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... “practice”. (Science Bowl to this day continues at my high school, and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this ... from other people. But at school, when those are really the only types of ... disheartening, when it happens at school, a place where you're supposed to be

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

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  each game [annotation note="Happening next week, Friday August 21 at 7 ... miss MIT[/caption] My Performance I chose to hide at MIT Medical and seek at Briggs Field. I placed [annotation note="It seemed unlikely

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... essentially the same content. It was annoying at first, but became funny as it ... suffice as an explanation. I think I should receive at least partial credit

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  ="564"] the North End is lovely at night[/caption] i've also checked out ... comforting. i've started to work by the river/at random places across campus ... down for a whole month while at home, but i'm currently living with at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  have decided that taking five classes at MIT on top of a UROP and ... spend time with friends. 2. I'm continuing my UROP at the MIT Education ... Melat (another UROP) was something I wasn't quite ready to give up yet. At

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  really great during your first few months at MIT; I really enjoyed building an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : they have history written right on them! Take a look at those dates, baby ... Doppler shift in the frequencies of hydrogen emission spectra at various ... .) at those points. -EME, or Earth-Moon-Earth communication. Bouncing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... with her mouth. I said I'd be more diligent and better at coding. This ... to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  (MTG) put on its last performance of “A Chorus Line”. I was exhausted at ... time. I would get back to the dorm at midnight and collapse on someone ... intake was definitely approaching excessive. My sleep deprivation was at

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  we wanted to go to industry, but #lol #yikes at our interviews. So now we’re thinking maybe to go to grad school, but are like #lol #yikes at ... ! Unexpectedly, they incorporated a lot of music into it and also a meme at the end

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So ... , so that they can commission at the same time as their graduation.   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  get better. Rather, you get better at being at MIT. It's the little ... spots. Go explore. Take breaks when you're studying. No one can work at ... better at being at MIT, I've lost my grip on writing. I used to end a long

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... finish before Saturday (the day I move out of MacGregor). At this point ... : https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/teaching-at-mit/"]Lab Assistant

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019