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• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  remember the first job I ever wanted to be was an interior designer. I drew ... smile. While my desire to be an interior designer[annotation note="I soon ... [annotation note="which will thankfully never be read by anyone"]started a Wix book

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  was going to be us after our exams were finished... After all, we ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... about Cambridge- Being able to explore such a beautiful little city on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  the closest I ever got to be consistent. I also made an effort to eat ... transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... to Cape Cod for the first time! I went to Boston Commons way too many

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... basically going to be my MIT essays copied into the UC portal and an easy ... ?". After years of never really finding an answer, I had come up with ways to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her ... always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of ... (which I found to be one of few high school classes that was actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  be really interesting to do my paper on spectatorship and Twitch and ... , as well as some keyword searches on Google Scholar. I decided to look back in my Google search history to see what phrases I looked up to find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  last thing I'd like to be doing right now. I'm actually pretty miserable ... deciding to go to sleep so we could be in lab within 3 hours to finish the ... really, really just wanted to finish. I told her I'd only be another half

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering ... work is the virtue at MIT. MIT is often said to be more egalitarian than ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a ... quick question to a nearby SIPB member, this was fixed. And "pony" was

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... search for summer opportunities. That summer we traveled to Israel for our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  effective stress-relief technique. Reason #5: You will never have to be late for anything again — you can just trot quickly to your destination ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  would be robbed of all the things I had been looking forward to and maybe ... . We crowded by the elevators to hug him, and when he left, someone said ... ’m ready to stop focusing on how my community will no longer be living on our

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... feast upon it  What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? MIT students ... student culture. We pay you for this work. It's a pretty good gig, to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... of a suitcase any more. Soon I’ll be on my way home to MIT, and ... still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  7th — June 11th I knew I wanted one thing, and that was to be by the ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  logs. reading them over, they're such a throwback and deserve to be on ... Steve Harvey. We were blessed to be watching a stream in which the ... , inviting: there are four different ways to produce light in her room. a ripe

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do ... be really great and that it was going to be out in theaters sometime soon.  Therefore, on my way to get Frozen Yogurt on Saturday, I was super

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  . It should be a deep dive onto this topic. For my paper, I chose to ... ate a quick dinner at McCormick and headed to 2.009 presentations. 2 ... quick break and then sent the script over to some friends to edit. Then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... adviser. The advice you need to make good choices will be there if you look ... disclaimer to future harried applicants: MIT Admissions uses Facebook in no way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18 ... exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field to get an answer.)