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• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  on others that that strips me of my merit as a student and I begin to ... Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  'd experienced enough of CPW to make a valid judgment on if it was good or not. Not ... is a lot of sarcasm on the floor.   Mom and I then went to the ... night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman ... of given up on this, because like the New Englander I am, I do have a ... do - ???% complete. Before I get started on this, let me go on a bit of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  Earth Move Into the Woods -- A mish-mash of many fairy tales Agony On the ... IS OUR ALL TIME FAVORITE MUSICAL. Based on a 70-page chunk of War and ... 's cover of it and Sara Bareilles cheering him on When He Sees Me Bad Idea

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  . Kind of like the foot pedals on a pipe organ. [caption id ... of the few instruments on this list that I actually ended up building ... performance of the piece on the theremin. There's also a secret fifth

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  .009,[/annotation] which sucks a full 3-4 days out of my week on average, and my ... back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16 ... became more involved in promoting mental health and general health on campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC ... ’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our ... there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  is, right? Mine is now on top of my roommate's whiteboard, where it ... going on outside of classes and ballroom dancing. For example, slacklining ... "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  classroom on campus, a small room in Building Four within hearing distance of ... problem sets on the first floor of my dorm, unlock the door for friends, and ... The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... that I have a lot of crap. 20ish trips and multiple breaks later I had

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  Hampshire! Not all of us can go on fantasy pirate cruise ships, so we all ... the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I'll be able to concentrate that night. Instead of concentrating this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  -colored shoes 6. She once wrote a 5-page paper on The Economics of Richard Cheese ... Someone commented on the post regarding blogger applications asking ... as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  White put on this summer. After several hours of taping down old copies ... distance of MIT, so that's where we went. On the way, we passed by the MIT ... This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are ... . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As I spent much of my time around first years, I found myself giving copious amounts of unsolicited advice. Even if [annotation note='😅 ahahaha

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  about twenty years of travelling on the Delaware coast and three years ... DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of ... day, it seemed more just like your average resort town on the Atlantic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  . We care so much that many of us have tried to explain this on the blogs ... aware of the impact that an admittance to MIT can have on a student’s life ... ’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... nerdy (like the kids in the Facebook group "Dorks Who Were On The Facebook

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  working robot - I loved every second of it. My Cohort On the first day I ... each other on the 26th of every month to catch up - and somehow, we ... to Newbury, creating long notes lists of all the restaurants you want

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025