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  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  this blog explaining why WISE is amazing.      Applying to WISE ... decided.  Asia’s reason for applying to WISE was simple: “it was free”. We ... apply to. But she wasn’t genuinely considering it. “I didn’t think I’d get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  to happen today because classes start on Monday which is, believe it or ... timeline is a little hard to explain just because sooooo much happened, but I ... almost-equally-clueless college students, and we needed to figure it out

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this ... the strength to fill it, so all I can do is try to block it out. Like ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  from home -- but for now, MIT, it is so nice to meet you. Let's be good ... this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already ... laundry to clean it out.) I've been reading the blogs since elementary

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  times, it takes years to understand what MIT truly is. The same goes for ... butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i ... control required to ignore something is hard. i know i find it hard. so i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  left home for college.  I used to measure his height through its ... outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... consultant? And who is to say that her interests didn’t bend into a different

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... got the rare shot, I blew it. Talking to people virtually made sense to ... cool to people”, but I could never go through with it. Pictures and

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of the bracket and unanimously lost to it. Sorry, Julie Andrews fans ... whole do-mi-mi, mi-so-so business starts to lose a little of its charm. In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is ... [/caption]     This is what it's actually been like for the most part.   ... Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it ... will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any ... admitted students. While it is true that we haven't taken anyone from the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... is equivalent to his death, the settling of an entire people–even if it ... that to which it was accustomed...–is always lived (in a certain fashion

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  expensive to purchase online ($25 for two swabs). Also, it is very very ... is touched (which happens often, since it's in your mouth), it hurts. They last about a week, and can make it painful to eat or speak. Their

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to ... logic but not the reaction. The author is trying to be offensive on ... tells us that it’s sometimes useful to read articles we disagree with. But

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  It's snowing. Hard. Blizzard-warning, dangerous-to-be-outside, MIT-is ... can learn it, and that the best way to learn it is to do it without ... sort of what an API is, and I've successfully used it to do something. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... sing This is true--it's not a lore! Oh MIT. You offer us experience ... thanks to Lourdes '15 [who filmed it] Kirsten [my TA] and of course the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  it sort of does. and regardless, it makes me feel Old). i also had to ... sense, it does feel like an end. there is something so beautiful about ... physically hurt. and then, while talking to one of my friends, i realized. it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but it's just not the path I want to take. A couple of years ago, the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  'm happy with it though - largely because Missouri City is close enough to ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... do so immediately. It was honestly a privilege for me to meet these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  nice and is just an overall wonderful thing to have. It is nice to have ... one this year and it is great to have. No longer do I have to worry ... anymore, but it is definitely nice when you aren’t soaked head to toe just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010