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• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  while. And, sometimes, a distraction is all you need to rediscover a sense ... process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... . A million too many thoughts and intentions. I need to chill out ... much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  you need to do before you're prepared to take off (see the analogy ... need to ask for help. That's why we have pass/no record. The space dog analogy continues to apply elsewhere as well. Once you leave home, no matter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... pretty much anything possible, but we had to use both the lathe and the ... my schedule, but now it's time to show just what I've been busy with

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  on? Which means that, well, you have to handle the waiting ... otherwise. :) Back to what I was trying to say before. One rejection does ... Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... /GRE word!) I guess, strictly speaking, I don't have as much of a right to ... . This does not really make me feel all that much better. I get the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  . Techiya's Fall 2010 Concert, "Once Upon a Techiya" It turned out to be a ... , my favorite group is Techiya. As an a capella group, Techiya does not ... go to other colleges or are friends of MIT members. Most of them are

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... . But that's another story for another blog entry. What am I going to ... I and II," shortened to "J-lab" (an abbreviation of Junior Lab, as it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  Exam during your Orientation, then you won't need to take the class here ... . You do not need to take a language or history test. We evaluate each ... Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  demonstrate their ability to handle MIT’s rigorous academic standards. The ... . If you are interested in doing research at MIT, you will need to be ... An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  friendships for a degree, but I think you have to understand there's much more ... environment. It's incredibly difficult so you understand that you need to ... because they know you can handle the rigor and are up to the challenge. And

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  presence lingers just a bit too long (it does, sometimes). i wanted to carve ... a pleasing "i don't need you to be successful." and with every ... tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  forced in that moment to reaffirm that choice for myself.  Once I did that ... -worker was nice enough to get us a discount at a nail salon and once there an ... knew how to handle such a situation, and I would be at a loss myself, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  discovered that he still needed 186 units of credit left to graduate. This was ... 's not much trouble at all to get up the river, and you're allowed to take ... necessary once they find out that MIT really does have a relatively deep

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  additional challenges of this lab proved to be much more difficult than the ... introduction to handling background reduction since there is no perfect method ... this was right up my alley and I proceeded to spend way too much time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  needs legs to stand up right? No s***, I thought. But how can I even ... long time for me to admit that, because at MIT, the work really does ... experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  rooms. How does one go about lofting a bed? Do they need to buy anything ... and fulfilled. Jessie does three, to my knowledge: student government ... 't need to have previous cheer experience to try out for cheerleading. I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  side and that each section has much food for thought, so feel free to ... actually feel Good and Fulfilling. What does success mean to me, though ... particular quote in the opening pages that struck me so much that I added it to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  wherein you now need to find something else to do besides psets. For example ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013