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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  where a lot of (not all, but a lot of) people do and love doing really ... described^) is the stuff that the majority of MIT students do on a weekly ... specialists, those who can do one thing really well. That one thing for a lot of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... 't know anything about 5w ME: we have a lot of cats * * * ME: hey do you ... told you about my a cappella group yet * * * FROSH: is this east campus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  talked your ears off about IAP, but it’s such a fun time to do whatever you ... still have half a problem set to do, it’s nice to know that the weekend is ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... , meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT. It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do, one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  how do you all conceive of a transformative movement that includes ... there’s no way a few people can do it alone.“   “I’m here because I ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... of things I now realize I was doing: 4 MIT classes that are a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors switching/undeciding mean (My child is just as undecided.): a) There is no ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... position to do their absolute best, and asking them to spend energy on a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  it, and I wish I'd gotten a chance to do this earlier. Costuming and ... : patronus", and you need to find and beat a certain number of these to do the ... who wanted to kill me. I remember doing a raid somewhere with a bunch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  do with a classroom of juniors who never really learned the difference ... skip over the next section, but I thought I'd do a quick lesson for those ... ) doesn’t do well on a test, my heart sinks as though it were me getting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  is: Spontaneity! I’m a huge fan of doing random things ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I ... Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015