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• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  good of a lawyer you are will depend on your grasp of the issues with ... student group on campus. Speaking of Dance Troupe, let me leave you today ... hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  impression of college was from scrolling on college websites, watching media ... ’t quite supplement the feeling of actually being on campus.  That being ... felt better to catch up on the content I missed with the help of friends

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  pieces. On the first day of the IAP class, I stared at it and clanked it ... copy on top of each other almost exactly.  This was my last project of ... In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  of embraced that perception -- we call ourselves “da twins” on these ... This past semester has been different than any of our other semesters at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... college I realized that the dishwasher is on a long list of things that make ... use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  to post this update since I kind of left off on a somewhat unsure note ... join. I've never been on the PNM side, let alone the deepher side, of ... shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  healthier. Drink lots of water with it. A Note on Food: college students (and ... do, you’re very on top of things, but it’s my belief that you don’t have to do that to be on top of things, especially if, like me, you know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  all sorts of profound ways. When I was a new frosh, I was temped on 1st ... about a few of his experiences on 5th East. We talked about how we ... enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  of reasons. I...should get on that."]became a pure 21W major ... more on top of things would've allowed us to function more efficiently ... ; I am always pulled towards the option of doing more things, taking on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  school in astronomy. As a result, the contents of the binders on my ... , it’s all space physics: notes on the fate of stars, on how galaxies ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch ... moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under ... weekly class which students attend; they're on a wide variety of topics

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  exact location or have a poster of her on my wall, but just underneath ... allowing students on the parts of campus where they're filming then now is ... I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  summers and the piercing chill of its winters. And if one will hold on, he ... Last Friday afternoon, I - like many of you - learned of the awful ... didn't seem as important as calling Ryan, my 10-year-old brother, up on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  mouth of a 5’ 3” tall girl, particularly if I exclaim it while standing on ... sure to focus on the correct ‘type’ of achievement; not too technical, or ... me.” I erased as much of this as I could, focusing on how handsome, or

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  you think you have some kind of tether or control on me, that your ... reminds me of you. this time it was headfirst slide into cooperstown on a ... were going to be my maid of honor at my wedding, i thought we'd go on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  kept piling on, or how i thought giving myself large lists of things to ... a few weeks ago i asked my friend what kinds of people i should date ... ’t even noticed that i’d been enforcing the implicit constraint of only

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  -eyed, confident, and on top of the world. So, now, this may be the moment where you ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of ... MIT in half of the articles on Popular Science. She is on Cloud Nine

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  three of us on that day. We're so cute!! I missed our dynamic. "we were ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of my life as being 'on-campus and then not,' but passing other students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday ... waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to be focusing on my relationship with God), so my I gave my brother my My

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  Recently I considered sprinkling (read: coating) ramen powder on ... saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... induced coma, I spent the last few days working on those things I put off

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012