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  Unwinding how i destress

  

  to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... Minecraft was dying, I leeched on to other creators, mainly going to the indie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and ... latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to figure out where the heck they're going. Our hallways aren't the easiest to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  book too. (There used to be a website where MIT students bought and sold ... I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... want to avoid arbitrarily ranking critically acclaimed books higher based

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

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  regard to how I felt or what I wanted to do. I was an instrument of a force ... It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for these classes), and you can hopefully understand why I was so excited to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... floor above mine, one often subjected to the graceful fingers of Random ... , there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  , I sat down with one of them, Kevin, to talk about his room, which I ... fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be something I looked forward to every week and I seemed to be teeming with ideas ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . When I’m in my room, I almost cry. But I force myself not to. All I see ... only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their pages and thinking about going to school there. I miss the potential ... while reading this blog, this isn't entirely true, and I just want to make

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  , I forced myself, despite my limited time, to think about what it was ... devoted hours and hours each day to psets as well as textbook reading ... to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  't seem to make sense Everything was going well Guess that was just the ... semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then the pandemic happened, and I didn't go to any. But last weekend I got to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  . That's about all the backstory you need. Also, nice to meet you!) You would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  adult swim. Parents, Welcome back to the Nance Effect! Hopefully you ... color to an audience of color. With that said, I believe that the vast majority of my writings are applicable to the masses. Everyone is welcome

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  ! This semester I'm taking 6 classes, but I like to tell people it's 5 ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... .011) are classes offered to students who failed or especially struggled with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a ... to find and admit students who will succeed at MIT and serve the world afterward.  After careful consideration, we have decided to reinstate our SAT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022