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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... , suddenly, when I got to MIT, they became completely ubiquitous. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least, I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  toilet.  My dad kneeled behind me, pressing his hands to my stomach to add ... distended to suddenly hollowed out.  Eventually, my parents tucked me back in ... remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... are only relevant to my first semester. I'm going through them now (3/16/2020) to see if there's anything I should remove or add :) MIT has been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  was [annotation note="I turned 21 and went to The Muddy, MIT's grad ... Christmas and it's okay to listen to Christmas music again, and SPOTIFY ... cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and ... consolation, so here are some poems that i like to go back to every now and then ... . light pollution should have taught me that hope demands hurt to be seen

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  us how to solve problems using Matlab- the lectures provide the ... fifth time since I’ve gotten to MIT).  [carousel image1="105487" image2 ... recitation. For the week I’ve decided to share, we were using angular momentum

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... chair, talking with myself to work through some thoughts. Moments of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine ... no closer to achieving it, I realized that I would need some ... signed up for the course this fall. I also wanted to take this class

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to ... students at MIT here.  Instead, I wanted to highlight just how quickly students began to act. Within a couple of days, mailing lists and discords

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  peace, an outlet to make myself feel whole and sane. I’m excited to ... get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... other days, except my boyfriend flew up from Georgia to see me. Later, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... overthinking. You end up having to sleep due to fatigue and most likely will wake up with a clear mind and higher spirits, ready to face the day. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  stories from anyone willing to share them. Cheers to everyone who collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018