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• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they’re just things that happen to be more on the mind lately ... , blogging, and my values.  time: This section talks about different ways to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught ... , atmospheric gases of power I could contemplate, be overwhelmed by, but not fully ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  information common to all applicants, which can be very helpful to admissions ... applicants considered to be the best 'match' for that school. They generally ... children will be admitted to the best colleges for them, regardless of where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... you to be able to use and manipulate it. It's one of the (if not the ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  ’s like to actually be a student here, or that I've helped you in your own ... pretending to be someone I’m not on these blogs, no use in trying to write ... post, one of my goals for this year was to be authentic. To show the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... safety, comfort, stability.  I wanted to be home. I can’t, to be honest ... gawking at the height of the buildings. It feels strange to be in the center

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  . It was as if I’d been invisible, but not enough to be pushed by a ... the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... showcasing both cards. The astute observer will be quick to notice the MIT ... proud to be an Engineer. Finally, here's a glamor shot of Andrew '12

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there ... attract plenty of people out for a stroll, but they tend to be dominated by ... is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful, because I was surrounded by people who wanted to see me fail. This dynamic

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when ... , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... or two of these links will be useful. Many of them are to posts on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  be away from the blogs, since I'm so accustomed to posting every week ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... at being home. I knew I wasn't being fair to my family, since I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  group of 5 Americans and our 20 Vietnamese friends quickly increased by ... of rural Vietnam, inhabited in the day by water buffalo, seemed to turn into the place to be at night. Over a hundred people gathered around a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I searched for the optimal way to get above ground) … ran back inside ... second, which would be comparable to a human running at 330 km/h (210 mph ... going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  to support my thesis of inherent DDR-incompetence by jumping on ... way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on ... switched to Canadian coins, but this went unnoticed by the waitstaff

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  Women’s ERG Slack Channel,   seeking refuge from being baptized by spit ... time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... part of me still fears not being able to hold down a Real Job in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  .  I won't be able to return to it even when things are normal again since it'll be under renovation until my senior year, so it's strange to ... -ending day. much of that can be attributed to how...nothing particularly new

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  limit. Unfortunately, this appears to be the limit of absurdity as fun ... , searching far and wide, teach Pokemon to understand the power that's inside, Pokemon! / Gotta catch 'em all . . . I mean, study. (To be fair, Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  become less time-sensitive and being able to read and write quickly becomes ... specific to people with dyslexia. “In life, you want to be insensitive to the ... it comes with a cost. Being very good at mapping sounds to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012