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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... not only because it is fun to see British terms like "Freshers week." It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which ... to day life was like. Maybe you really like skating? Maybe you really ... allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  drafts, second drafts, third drafts, galore!), trying to finish up my ... papers (coming soon to an MIT journal near you), working at Camp Kesem (it was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by ... actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT International Science and Technology Initiative helps students find ways to study ... internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... train: #5, currently on time listening to: 鱼丁糸, “I Don’t Care (鱼版)” Good ... was out all the way from Omaha to just before the train entered Colorado

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... to be released. I've spent the last week stressing over the question ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  to emails sent out to the entire MIT undergrad population, which usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  places students in schools abroad to teach short courses"]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to reheat it. i see some friends from hall. "good morning ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus, or move off campus. moving off campus didn't appeal to me since i wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem ... -internship was only 25 hours a week, I found myself with a bunch of extra time to do essentially whatever I wanted, which is sometimes hard to find at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  have bangers playing at all times, and there's so much space to dance ... from my floor showed up to parties in one screaming orange horde and ... changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact ... home from MIT due to COVID-19. I found myself calling friends I previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my ... cross-registered at MIT to take [annotation note="previously known as just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  -watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... issues that have prompted me to think about my culture and where I fit into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... teaches you how to be a *good* software engineer. *good* means that your ... ="unless that code happens to be written by nasa or healthtech and really can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  welcomed people to the "new" MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... , and so we decided to share the same design agency (which ended up being

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

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her ... always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018