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  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  requirements of this class is to notice something new every day. we are learning ... , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i ... spent too much of my earlier years laser-focused on getting my math and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  than it should have, and it's taken on new shades of meaning over the ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... , with new faces and new names as another class of freshmen arrives. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City ... beliefs. On top of the pressure I put on myself to succeed, the pressure my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  leave - I was ready to fly far away from Asia and be part of a new great ... . Instead, you are asked to apply that knowledge to new situations on the exam ... impromptu lecture on the brilliance of the biochemistry of the human blood

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already ... -wracking freedom of moving to a new city, the overwhelming rush of first love, the ... of connection (and new parts of myself). Back to reading now

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  part of your identity, but also embrace everything your new environment ... Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... unprecedented. At the end of the DormCon planning process, we settle on two new ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  : The Dean's Office is postponing the installation of a planned new ... in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... few comments from members of SHASS. Before the area was hacked, the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  on this. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - This is one of those books ... Japan, so I bought a copy of his new book when it came out. Unfortunately ... voices on what the time was, even if some of them got to it a little more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken

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

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... of space—apparently, i had entered the coordinates wrong. on the ... benefited from experiencing more of mit while i was on pnr, and the advice

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  -state. Two exams per week - on top of psets and labs - is now just average. And ... my clubs on campus. And schoolwork occupies so much of my field of view that I can barely glimpse the rest of the world behind it. But on the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... ="the Eastside Party"]a big party[/annotation] on it as part of [annotation note ... "] CAD model of our fort.[/caption] We started work on the morning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  term. On the other hand, as the end of the term arrived, I was unlucky ... really, and not for long. I stand on the threshold of my room, all of my ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... obtaining your residence permit and a lot of additional information on your

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  makes. Unlike some parts of the country and the world, here in New ... somewhat predictable and depends on a complex set of factors mostly beyond my ... art, mason jar full of lemonade (or cold-brewed iced-tea, depending on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014