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  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  Shiny new computer Since my grad program gives a $1000 "educational allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to ... we think that keeping in touch with you guys on a personal level makes ... these blogs are just a glorified PR trick. I'm not going to waste any time

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your ... we have received a number of questions from prospective students who ... been unable to [annotation note='As a reminder, we are suspending our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep ... insurance changed) Tripped so badly walking down Amherst Alley (on a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that ... prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product ... tell you all about it. Bevi is a “smart” water “dispenser” company

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  a lot about (2) in particular. These past couple of days I've been wading in a sea of big thoughts and feelings, but I can't individually identify them. It feels a lot like trying to untangle jewelry; I try to undo

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  pm: you go to a cafe with K, a friend of a friend who asked to hang out ... and there are no other drinks, so you buy a cookie even though you ... says he’s become a lot more enthusiastic about post-college life over the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  , and write about, a sociotechnical artifact — whether this is a bot, a tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make ... opted for a dataset + viz. The semester prior (Fall 2021), I had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of ... ’ve never felt so much joy from a season, a mere period of time defined by ... second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do ... Archives, and got a crash course on art history and documenting murals — and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to ... time has taken on a new form. From the second my head lifts from the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food the most so she goes crazy every time we open a can. also her purrs are ... Nicknames: pup, puppy Notes: She is a Havanese and weighs ten pounds. She is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ... a better work ethic, balancing work/life, and all around developing ... at a reasonable time and not stay up until 4 am every day

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking ... to join them even though it seemed like a pretty bad idea. but i don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before ... . I spent a lot of the past two weeks writing. I made three blog posts ... Informatics, and I started working on a new competition math handout. By all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is ... a quiz that should’ve been easy, or even how i’m not drinking enough

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  The Tech has an article out this morning about a new HASS ... . However, an MIT convention that spans the two is the HASS concentration, a ... rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  stressed me out a bit. See, I was gonna write a musical programing language. "A novel way to write songs", I described it as! Then I started writing a parser and was like, "Aww crap. This is harder then I thought," so a

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018