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  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You ... a time (I think my mom got me Word-A-Day for my senior year as well ... the message. 4. As a last resort, go for the EBE's eyes - you will not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  Hindi course (though Mandarin is up next for me). hedwig asked, "i was ... email was filed by the email staff. As for the interview, we do not assume ... . andrew wrote, "Would you say that March 15 is a reasonable estimate [for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  - Feb. 3 [Company name] interview for the fall - Feb. 8 The Batman ... -time job. The most important thing I did for others...was finally reaching ... world with such optimism, and I'm really proud of myself for getting this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to ... for the conference. It was just that I had to wake up at 6 AM ... 'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  for Future Course 6-9s Memes Individually, "Course 6" refers to ... sheep brain. After camp, I forgot about neuroscience for a while, until ... enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... time, and partly because hate was an outlet for how trapped we sometimes ... loved to hate the dining hall because every day we had rice for either

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics. If ... many places in the world. As for the SATs, you may do either -- either

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  comments section of this post and ask any questions you might have for us ... going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... be about MIT, or how our days have been, what we ate for breakfast, etc

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school, and who I continued to use (and drop) for the next five years. The hall

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an ... property. For example: L = {(a, b, c) | a + b = c} is a language of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  search for truth or objective reality or illusion or whatever. two ... singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and ... brace myself for. everything comes close to evoking existential dread, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have ... MIT and communities in the Amazon rainforest. For the rest of my first ... traditional Brazilian music arranged for the wind ensemble by some Swiss music

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  replace all k sounds with t sounds but that didn’t last long for obvious ... languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... equal. in multiple problem sets for 18.404, we messed up in just the right

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my ... wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... to [annotation note="For context, Next House freshmen room assignment

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... -name internship for my first-year summer was attainable (it wasn't), then that was ... goals for sophomore fall.   Do Laundry More Often  I had a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... draft done for [annotation note="Intro to Media Studies"]CMS.100

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of ... socially. My mom, knowing how difficult school was for me, started promising

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the afternoon and feel sleepy for the rest of the evening. But I feel sleepy all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on ... internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020