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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  be any other way. I think this is part of the reason MIT gets so ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the ... any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  do with me being amazing and more to do with the fact that I know my ... written by an MIT blogger, by all means link to it below. Academics Mind ... (Mollie): It's okay not to be the best http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be ... possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world ... , whenever I write a paper and put it out to the world. I will be judged

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  bloggers, blogs were...blogged to. Frosh: Are you excited to be a senior ... to do a thesis...also, I'm not ready to be a real person right now. I'll probably be ready to be a real person in a year. Many other nerds seem to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... 2 hours of slack: it can be delayed by 2 hours without affecting ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  be influenced similarly to mine by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ... Gamemasters. I managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I ... people seeking where I hide, there is no way to do this empirically – no

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done ... have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... the way back to eat; just grab your meal at Baker! Some of the FSILGs ... especially house dinners, are usually considered to be important community time

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  wanting to make my own for a while. and so, inspired by this post, i learned ... final fantasy 7 games turned out to be the [annotation note="it's really ... school year, so actually being able to follow up on wanting to learn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue ... would be writing this blog post to you. But that isn't how life works, right? It would be just as simple to tell a story about any other number

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  . If you are interested in doing research at MIT, you will need to be ... An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non ... Scholar Program, which enables current graduate students to enroll at
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To ... “Living simply makes loving simple.” bell hooks “To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with ... , I just want them to. 1. Me to be right about something. Anything. See ... theories to be correct. I guess this is more on me than JKR, though... 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  to be one of the most recognizable) by asking each of its riders to ... . Amnesty won the philanthropy award, by the way. Woohoo. I'm going to ride ... the best way to talk about my life since I last wrote without publishing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... data to the statistics file, where I analyze it by type of day (schoolday

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  believe the way you teach people to be responsible is to give them ... , something you learn best by doing: indeed, to be civically responsible is to ... student MIT was educating was being trained to conceive, design, operate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  great to be able to spectate and see the content with fresh eyes. I think ... and the two others going to the event were undressed in mere seconds by ... disconcerting to be acknowledged for sustaining a community, but god, was it a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  time management decisions on being a frosh that doesn’t need to worry ... on PNR,” they’d say, to be met with a chorus of denial and “shut up ... /UROPS, take fun classes, etc."]IAP[/annotation] passing by with me struggling to

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  . The problem with this structure is that the choices tend to be ... . The response becomes more negative, starting from "it has to be true ... time passes, from "the seconds slip by" to "the day disappears." The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  happy to be acknowledged!"]received a response[/annotation] to my email a ... planning in this way (to my knowledge). I applied as a civil engineering ... graduate) because I didn't want to be in an environment of exclusively

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025