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• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  's evening. on the weekends, most of the time i'm too tired to organize things ... where i'm going, all on the tip of my tongue, with no one to talk to about ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle on the shore and NOT run away. So, almost every night with our mom, we ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  book and the Math II prep book, from start to finish, on top of my ... on who you are, but either way, it involves a lot of time reviewing ... Course on YouTube saved my life in AP Biology--I even watched a couple of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  with Ed, one of the instructors, a transfer student was getting advice on ... signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I ... asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  click on "How to accept or decline our offer of admission", and complete ... courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify ... , and do all kinds of outreach--traveling the country, visiting high

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  afternoon, T-House is always on the list of potential restaurants.   ... there's no doubt they make some of the best sesame chicken I've ever had (a friend Matt O. on the other hand would swear by their chicken and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you ... whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once ... graduate students? Have you or any of your friends started researching for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo. Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  mirror off of somebody's car on the way down. Still, he was determined to ... important. As the scarlet V of lipstick on her forehead symbolizes, Ruth was ... midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  take on the color of sunlight and fire, blue skies blow friendly breezes ... climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  money as possible.   out of curiosity, i click on my November bullet ... .   on a happier note, one positive aspect of my otherwise hellish ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  time, was running on a diet of 99 cent chili cheese french fry burritos ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  time on it? No! They’re asking us to do all of these things and we don ... ’s on vacation, so you’re kind of just floating.  You’re working for the ... first place. Are you still on board? Anxiety: I don’t have much of a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... awake because of content. 11am - noon Next is biochem II (5.08). It's co

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator ... best a collection of observations. [caption id="attachment_96309" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012