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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  are working away on a project on your own, it is very easy to forget. It ... going to respond to your work, to these collections of glyphs on a screen ... easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  your eyes on it and make sure you actually hit it, how you have to bend ... You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here ... look. The street I walked with my friends to get home every day after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , sliding into a seat in 35-225 at 10:05, right on MIT time, ready to take the ... , depending on who you asked. More often, my team took a Peter Pan bus to a race ... thankfully, I never saw another mousenado. However, I did get to relive some of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  upset about how everyone was trading their "stats" like I used to trade ... it. Hindsight is 20/20. I think more than 1000 students get a 1600 on ... PhD programs, you're going to be doing research and so being prepared

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  collaborate, work with others, and rely on your peers and classmates to succeed ... Prefrosh: Firstly, congratulations on being admitted to MIT. I always say ... something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  on how well you pitch yourself (you don’t need to be pitching yourself ... consider rural and small-town based on many factors from population to your ... hear your thoughts on how we can best support you as a rural student

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i ... took several hours but went fine. on christmas i went to eat dimsum with ... how we managed to fit three people in my single room. they stayed for a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  foundation. Ask any young Cantabridgian to expound on collagen, but s/he may not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes ... , and you will acquire literacy to write your own. At MIT, students are

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  everybody who I have left on read this summer; I promise I'll get back to you eventually."]instead of getting back to the people I need to get back to[/annotation]or working on the side-projects I need to work on, I've been going out into the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  is many people? How did they get to be on this grand decision ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  ." That's SO WEIRD. You don't get to say things like that unless you're an ... myself to stop, just to get some homework done. It's like wasting time on ... get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  else is there to spend all of your hard earned TechCash on? How about a ... into the bookstore, getting a refund at the end of the year equal to 7 ... where you go to school. It makes one wonder . . . But enough of that, on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  how people without meal plans get their food. Finally, you can shame me ... snacks to munch on in between the dancing. Most of it was gone by the time ... munched on pretzels. I stay up a bit late and get hungry, so I eat some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  food just keeps on coming and you're forced to stuff more and more down ... - which is how you perform in relation to the rest of your class). Thus, if ... difficult to get As in certain classes. However, in 8.02, you're told from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  ."]REX[/annotation], and our seats were next to one another! On the plane I listened to You ... of airline training'' "]how long he had to train to be a pilot ... [👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀]. So now it's  🫵 YOUR TURN 🫵  As you come to campus for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... South Street Diner, which, according to both Ruth and the How to GAMIT is ... become so famous due to the sheer concentration of bloggers on the floor

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  saying it is bad to be influenced by those around you, in fact that’s how ... and never questioned them. Now you’re probably wondering how any of ... out, someone calls me out and I have to respond “oh man, you’re right

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  warmest gloves, and the most durable boots. Get ready, it's going to be ... and gusty wind, pray your brisk Winter's walk allows a speedy arrival to ... Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  student ID, a form to apply for my athena username, some instructions on the ... getting e-mails from Hilleevery two days inviting me to all of their events. But whatever, I was a frosh and didn't know how to use Moira to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to ... , including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get ... ? Winner gets a mention on the blog, or something =) Taiwan Then I flew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005