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• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to

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

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  moved that he brought it to Star Trek. For those of you who don’t know. Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s Star Trek TV series. He grew up in the Boston area, where (in his words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  like, "Keep it up. Study for the MCAT. And don't forget to shadow doctors ... for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... still ask for and value grades, test scores, and extracurricular

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday ... of them til I find homes for them around here. So I took a trip back to CT in the middle of the summer to pick up the kittens. Chris came w/ me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of ... brilliant use of the close-up, cross-cutting, rapid-fire editing, the iris

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  - I was super intimidated for a lot of reasons. Growing up as the ... survive. So basically, I signed up for a summer of stress, sleep deprivation ... pattern - hunting for the best shortcuts across campus, making daily trips

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  setting up a blind date system for the microbes to get to know each other ... , but it made it up here for similar reasons to why #9 wasn't last. It ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  , hazy sort of fondness that I usually reserve for Dali paintings and ... presentation, walking up and down stairs, more presentations, milk and cookies ... , I dozed into soundless oblivion. I was standing up. The presenter was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... invitation to go hacking just because you are scared you won't wake up for your ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  Good evening. This is Ruth Miller, field reporter for Sam's blog ... adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... you don't think they'll go, unless you want them to come As for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... responded with "I have some bad news for you..." to which I felt some concern ... crushed my laptop. He showed me my computer, apologized very sincerely for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  own complex work station set up for his work. Some of the technology ... , Emma got a 3D printer so she could print things and test thing for her ... you see upon entering our apartment. For those of you who have read my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... aren't sprinting.  Instead, through training they've built up an enormous aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  laptop. I like my retina iPad Mini for curling up in the lounge to read the ... kicked around, or watching Up in the Air too many times. Anyways, every ... you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  it’s for something important, like, recently, picking my little brother up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... wonderful, because I did not pack me a lunch. It ended up being twice as long

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me ... excitement. Actually, there's been too much excitement for me to find the time ... bubble tea for my caffeine event (note: never hold a confusingly named

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few ... documents haven't shown up on the application tracker. Here's why: we ... straightforward enough, but it takes a lot of time! It is completely normal for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  system for freshmen, or any of the wide variety of acronyms that have ... and relatives is that, “Oh, I'm heading back this Sunday for IAP.” If I ... in another language! (For all you pre-frosh out there, just think: next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links ... ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a ... Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 ... was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025