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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... Harvard, and me :) I'm really excited to be working with this group this ... to research that I like a lot. At any given time, there are multiple

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... from place to place. I'm dead serious. --- Happy May! Yay. It's the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to ... Ivy, and we dragged our luggage to Baker, which is where we would be

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... -- most upperclassmen are probably still trying to erase memories of their ... be able to hold a job and successfully complete their schoolwork, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse ... still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... 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 / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... principal," my mom muttered under her breath. She turned to me. "You let me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  children, causing his son zeus to hate him and eventually overthrow him ... a scenario, all the dogs quickly learned to jump over the hoop ... the control group, at which point they did not attempt to jump over the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  comes to Decisions, both yours and… y’know… not yours. See with this notion, to recap from my other post, comes the idea that you are who you ... . I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me ... learning to make human-like text, based on whatever prompt and parameters you ... idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for week-long vacations with my friends ever since. but, from March 18 to March 27th, i got to experience spreak in all its glory! it was absolutely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful of due to the inevitability of group conflict and breakup, and because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  blogger application, to finally take on this vlogging challenge. I will be vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time ... 'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool noodle I shift my weight to dodge the blow... but then I’m on the ground. I try to stand, but the second I bend my left leg a horrible pain shoots

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  turning out to be really hectic. I’ve felt pretty overwhelmed lately. I’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to ... vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... just talking about the blockchain. I wanted to actually code something ... extra hard drive space to others while still keeping everyone's files

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016