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  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... these opportunities, there are so many things that can limit the use of tools that people can use to explore new things or study different

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did ... similarly barely-open-up-able door. "I should've re-taken the SAT like Sam ... feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... ’m around enough that I can actually get to know everyone, which I’ve really ... I thought, since my last post was actually quite uninformative re

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  interstitial fat around the gut, I unrolled the intestines as carefully as I can ... sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  out, realized “wait no! I can’t live without that!” and brought it back ... This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... , and I can believe that. —EP '19 running a marathon, but it's 100 ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to tell you all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though ... . Looking back, I can relate to so many of those stories, and I'm sure many of ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than ... entries on: "Why You Can’t Fail A Class Freshman Year." I’ve probably ... , I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  fact, I feel confident because I am alive—the fact that I can see colors ... willing to make time to listen, and to support them as much as I can. Since ... are going through a difficult time when I take study breaks, can make a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... still can't wait for next Monday when I turn this lump of three

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... MIT tumblr users of varying anonymity. I hope it gives you a sense of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  everything else on my schedule. I can point to maybe one, two instances where ... asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ready. At least I can say I’ve made it this far, after all this time. So ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a few days. I have spent many stressful, agonizing hours discovering that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ’s blocky and my brain grasps it. I can also create reasonable pixel art if I ... E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or ... maybe I can continue streaming after CPW. And, if it all goes poorly, we

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020