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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  is that a social circle is not something magical that you discover once and then sticks around forever. At least, not for me. A social circle is ... 's memorial in D.C. This is one of the most respectful pictures we took during

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  and precious rewards. MIT is a perfect example. The night before my ... future is scary, once we venture into the unknown, what we find there may not be so scary after all. This all being said, one year is a long time

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My ... custom, and we feasted all the day on carbs, as is our custom. In the ... image1="59162" image2="59164" /] Click the arrow to see food names. Not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... sandwiches One of the best things about New Vassar dining is that you can get ... ! The mix-every-drink-in-the-dining-hall drink is a classic, but here are

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  mental struggle. Rationally, you know that the board is going to move when ... towards the back of the board so that it would stabilize and not move any ... a place is; as long as it's relatively smooth ground, it works. The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  've taken so far, it is swim class that has made me feel the worse about ... be because of the sertraline. or both, or neither, and the thing is ... , and that the theme is of having my trust being broken. that all of them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  go where culture is  mom, did you feel emotional the first time you ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  times in the past, by the way.) I'm weird, in case that's not clear ... , discarding the latent fear that the average prospective reading this is going ... bio information I can give when I meet people around the Institvte ("Hi

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely, Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk ... answer. Getting out on the road to meet you is one of our favorite times of ... Beginning on Wednesday, the Admissions Staff will go out across North

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  not fault them for this. Overall, everything felt bad. And so at the end of the semester I told Raymond I still did not like his frat and that I ... been the goal of it all, really. I joined a sorority because the prospect

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across ... , shooing off passing thoughts. I will not visit the New York Times Live Updates page. I will not read and reread the Wikipedia pages. I will not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  family, your community, and your safety. You will not be penalized in the ... Hurricane Michael, which struck the United States last week, has deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and ... my day with the same group of people. Sophomore year is HELLA rough and ... closest friends is more fun than I could've imagined. We're all equal

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  own learning. The way that I learn best is by actually doing things ... , which is increasingly sounding more and more ideal to me. By the end of ... good. We'll see. I do want to do the things I love in life, but not at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  Ben's entry, I read the thread. I did not know about College ... , the reason APs help your application, as far as I can tell, is because ... applications ask for your unweighted GPA, so the fact that your GPA is 26.2 on a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  since writing is fun and writing about meaningful parts of the MIT ... + friends right in my dorm. the good thing about quarantine is that it makes ... during the summer!!   dance last IAP, I was dancing and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not ... blogging (this): 2 hours The thing that sucks is that I love doing all of ... think spraining my ankle also has not helped since the gym was the one

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  . The team is also an amazing support system if you need help with classes ... my freshman year, we finished 15th in the country, which is the highest ... a feel for the team and what the students are like. The team is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  ; 1. “The sky is the limit” - Mom Since I was a very little Gabe, my ... must have heard her whisper “the sky is the limit” in my ear thousands of ... what, Mom?” I asked. “That the sky is the limit. That you can do anything

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012