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• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  i do, tentative lines from a poem pop into my head. and a few more ... twenty minutes, then do a few practice problems for my physics exam next ... a soft couch helps! i update this post and do a bunch more physics

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• 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…

  

  out. Not with their laptops in front of them, not doing a little work in ... free time, and I have a rewarding job doing research that is going to ... ’s a choice. There are certain things that I know I need to do to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  do. It is a little weird sometimes… I distinctly remember walking ... , please! How do I life? Hope your road is a long one. ... extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  5:00 p.m. EST.' What do you make of this? If I haven't made a decision ... from stereotypical (as are the parties). They do have a lot of parties ... ....how do i go about getting the money back?" I guess this reply is a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  ’ve thrown it all into Dogecoin and be a millionaire right now.  Do your taxes ... Zealand, where I held a full-time job.  Most salaried jobs will withhold ... . Taxes are often withheld at a higher rate than what you actually need to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  twerking, MIT style need more be said?

  

  Welcome to another edition of MIT Students Can Be Artsy™, aka We Do More Than Psets! Really!™, aka Things to Do On Saturday Nights at MIT™! Aside from a cappella, dance is another big thing at MIT.  And the largest

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 8, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now ... omniwheels on him, and gave him a battery + eeePc. He's just now learning to ... that we trained him to tweet whatever he's doing. So, if you'd like, you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  pushed submit. A week before the EA deadline. It felt good. But then, I found a spelling mistake. And nearly died of panic. After receiving ... , impatient for decisions, reluctant to do my other apps, doubtful of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  . Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab ... during CPW writing a live-action roleplaying game for the Assassins ... robots in 6.01 and writing about riboswitches in 20.111 ...and probably a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  new banner. (That, and I've hit a creative roadblock.) I am ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  , what could we do?) Today, the MyMIT Portal team had our weekly meeting ... days, Geeta Dayal, is also a writer, but for periodicals. She most ... story. Wow! I also have a friend who wrote a one-act play that was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is ... international students.   I've been promising a post about international admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... first three weeks of IAP, making for a nice 5-week vacation away from ... promises a great IAP of blog-reading. Plus, Quinton, Allison, and Kevin are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and stumble across a page that will crash their browser. Various forms of anger

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  captioning every image... this takes a shockingly long time, would not recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  do any restaurants. We broke our fast with potato chips and a chocolate ... for a scholarship to do research in Heidelberg next year; she said that ... yelling "Hola!" instead of "Adios!" Oh, well. After some to-do and a heroic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  be seen as flaky. How do you avoid being seen as a flake? Again - do ... If you are a senior, you know that you are playing for all the ... people in your life during your senior year. So what is it that GCs do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  , I do think there is a meaning of life. I wrote three years ago, back ... 'm always thinking, "and then what?" How do we get from a point where you do ... may seem like a strawman argument to you, but I do genuinely think there

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