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• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... 2003. Then one afternoon, I got a phone call. Actually, I missed a phone ... area code. Who knows it could be MIT!" I responded with a snarky remark

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... and writing a review at the end of the process. If hired as a blogger, I ... all associated anecdotes and photos. It is now May 2023. I have been a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  this is a post by my good friend aidan chambers '23 who is a physics ... certain that someone has already given a more insightful and better written ... worst experience I’ve had so far as a Physics major here. While many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five ... getting a triple would be a nightmare. But I got lucky because we all have ... the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to

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

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  we invite everyone in our prospect database in a ~100 mile radius ... -Based Organizations (CBOs): visits to CBOs, which may work with students from a region ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who's teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the ... provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , many more students double major or minor in a non ... combining a humanities/arts/social science (HASS) Course with a non ... can be in your HASS major, which goes a long way towards completing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  all day and do nothing but studying fact: we work hard, but we do a lot ... something claim: boston weather sucks   fact: well, only a little bit if you ... holds this belief"] claim: the bloggers are a collective hivemind who hang

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  I've never considered myself a very natural leader. I'm usually pretty reserved, and, although I think I've become a lot less shy over the ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... keep poking at it anyways... I took a robotics class last semester that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  here's a blogpost from my friend julia! Hey! My name is Julia Pockat and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... documentaries! Recently I've been thinking a lot about my future. I've written

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  from a thousand miles away. Being so far away makes me feel a little better about being reminded about the inevitable fate of Graduating, a both ... project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change ... cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  IAP I took the MIT EMS class to become a certified emergency medical technician and joined the MIT student volunteer service. There are quite a few ... overnight shifts from 11pm-8am. Thankfully, there is a nifty little bunkroom

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  of lying. We all know good lies contain a grain of truth, like how CPW shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... , actually, you probably can. It’s been a few days since Spring Break ended

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014