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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  . Last week, I spoke to a girl who enjoys being here so much that she might ... ’t have a voluntary represented on the panel. The advice voluntaries need to ... grounding, now. You know what you need to do. There’s a line I say at this

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... friends was even a cast member two years ago), but I was always too lazy to ... a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... ) option, that just involves a [annotation note="as much planning as you can ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends ... , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a ... drinking soda without the fizz. Yeah, I've talked to people. I have a pod, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  ’t need anything." This refers to being tested in faith, and it applies to a ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  much better score if I tried. So after taking them a second time, I ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  display I'd use to play dance videos whenever I needed a break. Pros ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... experience and exposes you to a wide range of types of people and cultures (and ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... did Joan Didion, why does anyone? Because we want to write about ... the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or

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

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  enjoyable. Together, they cost too much. I needed to relax; I needed to ... hold closest to my heart, my self-described raison d'être, is “being a ... reason to motivate me to expend a little more emotional energy to make sure

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... do great things, because if you had the guts to apply to a place like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... to “become sophomores”, allowing them to declare a major, be assigned a ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT

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

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  can to celebrate being done, even if it’s a Monday. As much of a ... , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a ... faculty advisor. If anything, you’ll need a recommendation letter at some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018