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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  website if you want to check it out. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it was negative, which was incredibly rude to the kind person who gave me

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  forced to was great; I love linguistics and I love children, so of course I ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom: nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines. You rose closer with the sun today, shivered on the way to lab, the ... , forgot half the holes and channels. You set to fixing it, blinking through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• 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 ... -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not

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

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some MIT friends before officially arriving back to my very-not-unpacked dorm

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for ... : 1.) we still had to feed ourselves and 2.) we had an abnormal amount

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not ... college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  checking Google Maps. After nearly a year here, I’m starting to know ... writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ... I really ought to be well-rested if I want to be up and ready to stuff my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  science majors to left-handed people. Try Googling for "scholarships", and ... dedicating an entry to answering them. Please, if you have questions, feel free to ask! If I can't answer them, I'll tell you so! Drew asked: "Could

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... MIT, or should I say my hiatus from MIT (I will be returning to the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program to get an MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  the website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If we don't get it ... here as we prepare for nearly two-thirds of the admitted class of 2011 to ... . Must be seen to be believed. Two independently conceived Mooninite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... the homework, the pace is forced to be slow enough that you can still ... people to buckle under the pressure. I’ve adapted the response I created

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

   won an £11,000 grant from Google Rise to start new FIRST LegoLeague teams ... now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about ten students on the team that season; we traveled to New York for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  played before, being forced to start with "this is how you hit a ball" was ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  being challenged and forced to grow. I like the opportunities I have here ... necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... to know if you want to stay somewhere that's not so that they can put

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what happened to me: overuse injuries in my knees and hips that never got any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017