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

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly 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

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... busy. I didn't use to think I was the kind of person who liked being busy; after all, I'm quite lazy, and procrastinate to the point of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... people happy to add you to the list of students attending FYE! One minute

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for ... return. i see someone stressed, upset, and feel the urge to comfort them ... don’t want to intrude on the space they need. so i stay silent. and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  picking trip to Honey Pot Hill Orchard. Here’s his photograph of the apples ... a cup of tea on his way to fight an invisible space bear the printer ... of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  lilt of my voice and the curl of my hair. I’ve chosen to be the man ... the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a ... sure to focus on the correct ‘type’ of achievement; not too technical, or

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the ... goats and triangles with ears. And of the people who go to MIT right now ... Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  that had been left after the rest of the rejects of the art lottery that ... very strongly in the 1960s culture of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He was almost more well known for the number of wives he had (five!) and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

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

  

  admissions today on MIT FB, and it reminds me of the time when I applied to MIT ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school ... undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 ... . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  signatures, was made to turn Infinity Train into its own show!!! The power of ... wall!!! THE DETAILS OF THE DESK from the stickers to the paper clip to ... !!! The concept of the show is oozing creativity! Tulip, the main character

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  discovered the joy (not) of trying to do pullbacks in tennis shoes. But the mi ... ="Summer Science Program"]SSP[/annotation] knows that I have the tendency to do ... hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  each meal of the week. It helps to be able to overlap the same ... total budget at the top of this list. Make it your goal not to exceed it ... MIT’s sheer amount of free food, networking luncheons, to dinners the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  of the four students had either never been to campus or had visited ... across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  talking to people outside of the MIT bubble. Basia and I once had lunch at ... One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... lot of intercollegiate events throughout the year that MIT students and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  . Those are some of the happy things, and there will be more happy things to ... can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good, and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  .033. This is one of the few resources that I'll swear by and continue to use ... recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... will swear that recitations are the worst possible waste of your time

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... the pockets of my lab coat. (I work with mice, and I love them. Rats are ... TA waves at me, says "Bye-bye!", and points to the board, on which is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005