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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... work/life balance means. again, this depends on the person—some of my ... pass out on top of your problem set. 2) join clubs and activities you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces ... reevaluating yourself on a wide lens you didn’t know you could look through. this ... out. march on, march on. guest post by Piper ('17) -- a new friend, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  't belabor the point, as my position on the matter is well established. Suffice it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance travelled as we do on the heights achieved. I think our admission decisions

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the very same Colin who was accepted to MIT on the day I was deferred ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... like my old self, if you don't get the news you are hoping for on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... flashlights couldn’t write things down and had to rely on verbal communication ... replaying it on the xylophone, hoping a door would magically open. But then I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... blog post, but something just wasn't right… So I waited, and on the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... --a principle he impresses on students every Tuesday and Thursday in 6 ... “carefully overhear”) some strangers’ conversation. On getting into an uber, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more ... . However, I am now on the varsity fencing team, and that’s arguably cooler

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... having a home on campus would be important. But it took me over a semester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... started on BTS. We waited in line more than [annotation note="40 hours to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... , Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... song on my kindle to wake me up (This morning was Rodrigo y Gabriela

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  have made here on the blogs, such as David's Putting Diversity Into ... and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere. When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... didn't go well at all. On Thursday night, after my last exam was over, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  to be notified about every single event on campus"]deleted it ... gallery and claim an artwork. it's a bit competitive -- art goes on a first ... years reblogging art and poetry on tumblr, and jenny holzer was always a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a ... MIT alumni. Lakisha then explained the various pieces on the protoboard ... , she had recently received her PhD and was discussing her research on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... fences, and we live on opposite sides of campus, so our social circles ... belong here or not, I was admitted, so I’m intent on making the most of it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... 'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... (@roesbynoothername) on May 16, 2015 at 3:19pm PDT   Ellen F. ‘14, MEng ‘15 I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... stairwells, situated on Ames Street directly across from the Central Scientific ... people were unwilling to climb onto the rooftops. On October 6, 1916, MIT

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  -inspirational quotes on Tumblr) will tell you, “you don’t find yourself, you create ... to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... - simple things like sharing a meal. (Despite all that emphasis on networking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012