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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question ... , catch up with mates, go out on friday/saturday nights, or is the lifestyle

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  the program normally is already a feat, given the amount of work it ... -to-back, is tiring. But each of the interviews felt good, in their own ways ... increase of the rate of increase of student registration is extremely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Anthony R. '09 A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel ... patterns from the pattern language of my life by Natasha B. '16 Repilot by ... Everything is different now by Mimi S. '22 Thoughts from the Dungeon by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  , living off campus is a good option. Here is my list of pros and cons: The ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a ... first notable thing you pass is a Montessori School (the first of many

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this ... best or one of the best because distinction is a clear standard and goal ... for my child. This is just the reality of things. But the advancement of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... that is true, the problem you're dealing with is so much bigger than that. The problem you're coming up against is one I've seen so many of my

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  fact is one of the main factors in about 90% of the things I listed in my ... your life. So to a lot of people the n word is just another word because ... of this, the African and African American community is an amazing place

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  evolution, in much the same way a person goes through the Kubler-Ross model of ... your mailing list? To the student groups, the Midway is one of the ... more interested in. And the feeling of jumping ship is often like: if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  iterations of the freshman application (where not too much has changed with the ... /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  ) freshwater version of marine biology. This field is notably much more prevalent ... *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... submission.** The director gave her the job instantly. *limnology: the study of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  apartment) is a choice too, excluding an infinity of possibilities at the ... even if he had a time-turner and a teleporter, the version of him that is both-selves is actually a third-self, distinct from either of the two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  senior year of college, The Blogfather is right: “life is too short to ... Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... middle of the night?     Afeefah: My memory in general is ... what the ethical and right thing to do is.  What is one of the hardest

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  it's open to the whole (of age) MIT community, this is not a good place ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  ; the exterior is one-eighth of a perfect sphere. Little Dome - baby ... virtually everything, from the buildings to the academic buildings, is numbered? One reason I'm writing this entry is to help bridge the gap

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  organization that encompasses the sorority side of Greek life at MIT. Panhel is ... start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... of school is encouraged. This comes in the form of study breaks

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  out sailing. He is so insanely generous that, on the last day of summer ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  are now professors! Paula Hammond ('84, PhD '93), is now the Head of ... the best of my knowledge is the husband of Paula Hammond, an alumna ... role is also held by faculty who identify as women) to a part of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020