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  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for ... kidney donor; at any awards ceremony where the winner is expected to give a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... stressful, at the same time. i'm taking 48 units this semester, and when i ... friday morning office hours to beg for help before it's due at 5 pm. but it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  occupy my time. This trend continued at MIT (what, you mean MIT students ... unfortunately, "just a few hours" is not short enough to start a book at 11.30 pm when you have class at 9 am :( This summer, though, things are different

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... first is I’m three days away from my first day at my [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  random things that I have learned since moving to Beantown.  Beantown at ... . The cold months will last at least from October through March. If you ... there is at least one Dunkin Donuts every block or so. Dunkin is not just

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels ... like, “wow people who are good at writing are so cool! If I start writing ... always feel like I’m going through a period of transition during my time at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my cousins, our parents would let us run amok at Disneyland ... Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on ... to be bloggers (i.e. no prospective students or students at other ... orientation if at all possible, given people's obligations and whatever the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  chalk at a small angle [latex]\theta[/latex] down from the perpendicular ... holding it at the same angle [latex]\theta[/latex]. You should feel your ... pushing into the board too much, or you didn't hold your chalk at the same

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6 ... , feeling more alone than ever because while I was at home, I kept on getting ... anger at not being invited out, and I couldn't figure out why it had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  application process, and believe that, as is true at some schools (but not us ... mean "wherever we each happen to be Zooming from at any given moment."']here at the office,[/annotation] we are all getting ready to read your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  . At the same time, I care about what’s happening back at home. Just a ... it. I can’t vote here. And I can’t go to the protests back at home

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  minute lesson and the top 10 players with the most XP at the end of a given ... Duolingo for that given week. At first I was rationally apprehensive of ... , coincidentally at the bottom of Diamond League, and with a week between the end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the days of awkward small talk over the counter at Target, or small smiles ... plethora of joggers at 5:30 PM. I’ll miss my porch even though it’s falling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch ... navigate. The first two weeks at school B, we stayed mostly reserved. We

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  that I've been on this flight (approximately two and a half hours at this ... blog, but also as a reminder for myself that this is what I'm thinking at ... looking at first jobs post graduation. And, there's a special program called

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... just a few night later, but it does. The campus may not have changed at ... one day - maybe out in the street, at a conference, or perhaps on campus

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  've done serious coding in a good while. At MIT, there's often an attitude ... wrong choice at all. (Side note: Although I'm not claiming every course 6 ... helplessness' butt is something I really wanted to do at MIT, and this class has

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

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... to stay at MIT forever and retake classes over and over ... money. This probably has something to do with how at MIT you don’t pay

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I found a position at the Center of Biomedical TB Research at Wits ... environment completely foreign to me and see how well I could do. I arrived at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018