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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... . Night. It’s gotten to the point where I believe I am developing tendonitis ... full sentences. If I really need to think about it, I’ll write in Spanish

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  than others it wasn't as if I was about to vote one off of the island ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... . It was very easy to take all the challenging classes in math, science

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  ="Funny story actually: it was during recess when I tried to jump and touch the ... be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... think an event might be useful, go to it! Beyond the practical advice ... through. Also, I think it's easy to feel that (for me at least) the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  . It's always nice to have someone look over your writing and fix the ... to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . It's a unique opportunity to put our engineering skills to the test and ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  birthday. It was a rejection. I’ve got to say, it wasn’t exactly the best ... possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give ... admitted is to permit the chance to be rejected. And if that chance to be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm ... a little beyond the standard "it's okay to make mistakes") it is not ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  out, mumbling that it would be worth it compared to the other work i had ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the ... off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  , Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... frustrating if you want to go do, but it’s a nice excuse to just be. Ben ... want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it ... something like that before, and I only had two days before the lab to pull it ... , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  the time you notice a problem, it is often too late to begin acting to ... without ever having to take your eyes off the music whereas, if you didn ... , and each time i returned i was still able to remember where all the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  many of the teachers' stories. It was a happy visit, but I got back to ... good, solid reasons why it’s earned this negative image, to the extent ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do ... . I'm not quite done with it; I still need to finish the tapers on all

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Regulations, faculty from across the Institute had to vote on it — and we needed ... , and while it’s tempting to allow people to do anything they want in the ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... : MIT is THE place to study STEM! And we just feel that if we do stop ... plan to take, since it's a prerequisite to the two classes we actually

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015