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• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  even in normal times, from anecdotal accounts. In these 'unprecedented ... ’m pretty sure I can breeze through this one” *Frantically googles ‘What is an ... artiste in the first week of class (Jorja Smith😍), where we watch Shakira

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I grew up in Valenzuela City. Its longest and busiest road is Mac ... "] google street view provides[/caption] I have traveled this segment of Mac

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... experience still smoulders in the mind. Here goes: Breathe. Don’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  reading if you will. Remember Tim's promise. Best of luck in the weeks ... kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some ... chain that's pretty prevalent in the US - fun fact: it contains 14

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I ... -secret military agent whose patriotic duty was to sit in front of a CRT monitor and play minesweeper to protect U.S. troops from setting off hidden mines in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  's qualifying rounds in something like 20 years, so people around here were pretty ... games- either in bars with friends or in La Plaza de Colón, where they put ... watched the game in a bar/restaurant place. Our waitress served our taps

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  participate in a MISTI program, among other things."]IAP.[/annotation] Along ... deepfake specifically making the rounds in 2020. Given the opportunity to ... lectures relatively straightforward in terms of how they explained the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of ... girl studying abroad in the quaint city. They included a window into a ... , moderated by a fearless French girl, who knew all four. In that beautiful

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even in the slightest because that will Interrupt My Rhythm and Ruin ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... probably an appropriate time to address the issues that Cam brought up in his post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My ... . Germany is playing against Ecuador in the World Cup at 4 PM, so Dr. Kau ... left (in that respect, it was like most of my MIT problem sets last term

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it ... in another country? And what if you’ve got other plans for the summer—like an internship, or research, or going home to see family? In that case

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  mine who are in ROTC, the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Tessa and Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC ... inspection on the left photo. In the right photo, Rachel is on the left and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  spotify ever since freshman year. shuli and ankita have also done posts in ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... what i study to nowadays. RIP having good taste in music. my one attempt

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn ... year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in McCormick, and being in a community full of other marginalized genders

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  much the same as it would be in the US. Google can stalk me much more ... and google voice chimes in and tries to help, like a befuddled but ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I ... here with you, talking with you, and existing in the same virtual space ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019