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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part ... spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high ... Halloween just weirds me out, man. Seriously. Yikes. Speaking of weird

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  /Terrascope Acceptance, but none of these apply to me, so you'll have to look ... . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... ; naturally, 99% of the words spewing forth from my facehole have been ... -fail guide to cleaning my bathroom instead of writing about my most significant

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  minutes (in Spanish!) about the challenges of applying Java (which I know ... info of my wonderful adventures in Spain: MISTI (MIT International ... of the study abroad that MIT students do. Basically, back in the 70s

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school ... could choose my friends instead of spending the whole day around the same

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of ... so I've omitted it). Master of what? Doesn't matter, as long as said ... life of ridicule and belittlement, but I could be wrong. Anywho, the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and some that I didn’t and wouldn’t. Then there is a section of what I wanna do next semester! This blog is a sine wave of academic and personal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  class at The Ohio State University and I am one of three females in a ... festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  MIT’s newest foreign language offered: Korean) I’ve covered most of ... of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... the sense of overwhelming relief. MIT has been home, sure, but it doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of ... of social media among today's prefrosh, I guess you could say we were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  sort your mail. I offer up your daily dose of snark. It's a rockin' good ... , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a rigorous four-week summer academic experience that introduces 20 high school students…
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  of self expression. East Campus and Random Hall are the only mural ... at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022