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• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... . Even if your level of Wikipedia-involvement is limited to searching for ... into you, and make sure you maintain a certain level of sanity. To be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... goes for tons and tons of kids they didn't admit, too.) I wanted to be ... heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case ... admissions office, and they needed to be brought up to speed about student life ... questions were going to be. I imagined a fact request, like "what is the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by ... will be a public livestream on mit.edu to introduce her to the community ... —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I figured it would be cool to take ... spoiler, think again. I've been given permission by admissions to deny or ... Introduction to Astronomy Looking for Care of Magical Creatures, try 21H.909

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  papers and desperately look for excuses to not start studying. A quick ... lunch. 15 minutes later my delicious ramen is ready to be consumed. 1:15pm ... it also means that I'll be out of comission for 3 full days. Time to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  's easy to see how verb conjugation arose the same way. English seems to be ... being lazy speakers. It's a slang contraction for "going to." But if you ... see how "year of" could easily turn to "yearof," much the same way

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings ... dallas. she acknowledged the need to mourn and grieve and be angry. and ... email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  . I listed all the goals, skills, habits, etc. I wanted to have/do by ... people I already talk to lol. I’m trying to be better.     60% Completion ... ’m anemic, but I just could not remember to do it. This ended up being a good

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  by working with each other, being introduced to some material in class ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... home with a big box of LEGOs. $1500 worth of LEGOs to be precise. I don

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  felt our way outside, in the dark, and had just found space to breathe when I was seized by the sudden urge to sacrifice a chunk of my dignity ... certain way, there is a lot less to forget. All that said, the idea of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  enter MIT. You die when you leave, only to be born, or reborn, wherever ... the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away But I love ... , but my friends had moved on and the places had changed. When I searched

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  well (congrats to the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalists ... requirements! Socially, making the transition to college will be challenging no ... not socially inept beings who lock ourselves in our rooms, refusing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... school. Being surrounded by such STEM-oriented people, the very same people ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  along every story until it was ready to be published. I very quickly ... ? I became slightly obsessed with the way my writing was being received ... MIT. I knew early on that I wanted to be able to expand this platform

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... rapidly. All missing components must be received by 5 pm, Eastern Standard ... Hi y'all - Quick update for our Regular Action applicants. As Matt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  come to appreciate the small things and not be overwhelmed by the ... into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah ... music, don't be discouraged about what I just wrote. I'm just trying to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  weeks. Python is easier to commit to since I'll be practicing it by ... 2023 to sneak up so quickly, and I opened my planner last Wednesday to ... —I've always just had a vague idea of things that would be nice to do or learn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  semester, I'm not sure I want it to be this one. #2: 6.3900, Machine ... remember. I don't know if this class will ever be that exciting to me ... course is supposed to be a lot of time and effort, but I think it's worth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  seemed to have. This was further enforced by the fact that my community ... connect with my colleagues. To be able to understand why it is they thought ... could explore. I began to be able to listen to Uber drivers tell stories

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017