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• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  out of my comfort zone by reaching out to a random person and forming a ... , which is relatively okay pre-quarantine since it was balanced by daily ... aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  passed freshman physics by the skin of my nose. Rock out. I had a couple ... 're standardized and taken by a large number of people. 3. JE asked, For a research ... because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized that although I haven't done a lot of glassblowing, it's played a surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had ... of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every page contained one of our names on it, saying we were all traveling off

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have ... if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college students ever again, but god, do i crave it; the sheer liberation of dancing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is Ameer. Scattered throughout the rest of the office is ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  ridiculous number of TV shows. It's been fabulous! The test itself was pretty ... feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don ... bunch of APs. Which doesn't mean that you shouldn't take them, just that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your stay. There is ... introduce you to a couple of them here. Enjoy! Quynh Nguyen '15    Hello

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  the clouds, I was woken up this morning by birds, and we’ve now mostly ... -your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a ... do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his ... shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my ... unlocked one of the other Zipcars so we could steal their ice scraper instead

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter* Little did they know that by mentioning MIT to me at that early age they ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  best of it and kill two birds with one stone by taking a class that ... from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is ... technique of choice is to delete files en mass and never look back. It is also ... has led to hundreds of notes to delete, and I thought I'd share some

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don ... student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020