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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college ... who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... internship, or come back to school with valuable industry experience if I did. Plus, I’d be on the West Coast near my family, have the chance to live in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... summer time. I try to believe that stress doesn’t change me, so the bubbly, excitable, carefree girl I’m telling you to picture isn’t so different from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career ... Fair I proudly declared to all potential employers that I’m “planning to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that day and then nap again if I still feel tired afterwards” then trying to fix that to something more normal but messing up by half

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... extremely docile and friendly (or according to Wikipedia, “dog-like”) and is ... of mean to him and call him a dumb, weird dog, he likes to follow me

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  culture and traditions, it was an honor to be able to contribute to the ... crowding together into Kresge Auditorium.   *All photo credits go to ... a forward before the presentation was handed off to RingComm.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... on to discuss the "politically embodied concepts and dances originating ... " attempt to twerk, of Al Minns and Leon James dancing the Lindy Hop and other

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a ... this very special evening, I decided to dress up so I could walk straight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  ? Does she even go here? The answer is no, I don't go here, BUT I used to ... live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... claim to sage introspection quite yet, I did compile an assumptive FAQ

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  ME BE ARTSY/WORK ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS WHILE ENJOYING MYSELF. To be ... . Students will use existing digital and traditional content to identify a scientific misconception, outline a lesson plan to address the misconception

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Institute of Technology (MIT) students gather to receive small chunks of ... of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways ... will analyze primary examples of these photographs and attempt to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP ... Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a redeye flight that was miraculously not canceled due to inclement weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look ... might change me), but for now, I'm going to sit here and appreciate the ... eating enough ice cream to fulfill all my dietary needs), but it's the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I ... necessary to post the cute caterpillar in order to perfectly emulate my ... got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many ... ’ve spent your whole life being told to try new things and find what you like

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... send a text message to invite friends or post to the user’s Twitter ... open to students at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011