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  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  lived in for the duration of the program"]Almaty[/annotation], but Shoqan ... go abroad for college. Many wanted to come back in order to help ... questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... ... Then with Peter Pan, the ideas of hooks for a hand and singing pirates ... ”. That’s another thing! For the sailors, this wasn’t “sea music,” it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  deciding on a course of action, which is very useful for student government ... , or both; someone who's capable of speaking up for their team to ... . This past month, I've been serving as the band director for a student

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to string together enough coherent sentences for much blogging.  Now it ... nightfall. When I was twelve, I had an infection that swelled for two days

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very totalizing and for people to decide to only focus on one component. clearly ... : wow, i actually like this framework a lot p: for what it’s worth, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... with some more contradictions. for one, i (don't) want to do work. i ... and read things. for another, i (don't) want the semester to end. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad ... .03 it is. 17.315: Health Policy This is the last HASS I need for my public ... , who I also had for [annotation note="Intro to Public Policy"]17

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  fundamentally broken, or psychotic, in some way, or that it was only for people ... huge front desk. i walk up to it. i couldn’t figure out what to say, for ... someone? i opted for the more conservative hi, i’m here for walk-in hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn ... wrestling with many new abstract concepts in my head for long periods of time ... school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who’s going to be here over the next few days for CPW, I can promise you that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around ... approaching (of couse, after the horrifying super intense final week for people ... Cambridge.) SIGH. I will look like a zombie for 2 months ☹ But it’s okay

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  requirements. Other dorms would be less understanding. As for your plasma screen ... your dorm room (in any residence hall), except for microwaves and hot ... : good blog,I am doing research for my Daughter,she wants to apply to MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... , My interview is within 3 weeks, so I want to know how you prepared for ... probably for a lot of RA students, this is one of the most pressing questions

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  Thanks, everyone, for your feedback on the admitted students parties ... was unscheduled, but that made it all the more better. For example, Les ... of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  my younger self for behaving that way. they just had a lot of growing ... unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let ... for help when i need it. thinking about the steadfast support and love

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I ... child holding on to his toys for too long. But even so I would not say I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding ... . It seems like Ishiguro doesn’t hit hard for everyone, but I’d still say ... it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can ... . Think about it: for the last nearly 100 years Superman has been THE

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at ... studying for swe interviews because of my explorations as a novice electrical ... campus and internships for not having enough background. And while that has

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024