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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  : you guys are amazing. Every year when the call for new bloggers goes out ... and two blogger alums) met earlier today and had to deliberate for hours ... , and we thank you so much for applying. Please remember that it's really

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  semester that I actually started asking for recommendation letters of my ... enjoying my senior year dressing up like Quailman with my underwear outside ... ." What I ask myself now is, would I have not done the same for getting into

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  need to brush up on those dining skills in preparation for those ... -1pm, Hotel @ MIT The UFLC will be a forum for active student leaders ... opening. Suggested donation of $5 for students and $10 for non-students. All

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  politics. davis was a good place for me to end up, especially with the ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  huge front desk. i walk up to it. i couldn’t figure out what to say, for ... has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... ’t want to go. i’ve never been to counseling or therapy before. i grew up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn ... wrestling with many new abstract concepts in my head for long periods of time ... school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  that things would rebalance. Sure enough, I made friends, signed up for ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... 1960s, and I ended up doing my graduate work at the same observatory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  with each other until about 7:40, when we all headed off for bed to catch ... had assumed it to be—harder to come up with plot, easier to invent creative mechanics for the players' green sheets. The original concepts were

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  assembling her course schedule, picking up her textbooks - and buying a ... up with them my entire life. They're playful and cuddly and they make ... , you have a gerbil colony." Fed up with the pet wave, she struck a deal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  signing up for too many things means doing all of them badly (after a ... , especially college kids who are growing up and creating their identities for ... much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  ; [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons ... it. I didn't watch Adventure Time growing up because I thought it out to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... the swim test lol) For the first time, I have no mandatory soccer ... .  Dance. I kind of want to try out for Dance Troupe??!! I think DT would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... our minds. Sometimes, when I found myself gazing for long enough upon my ... events for all of the newcomers to our building. And while that promise

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... ='with the Accelerated Materials Laboratory for Sustainability, headed by my ... happens [for] ~4 days every [annotation note='these are 11 years long

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  , making friends you see for but a few months. that's what summer camp is, and i enjoyed my summer camps. but part of me yearns for relationships that last longer. for the selfish reason of having someone i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  credit for 6.0001, by taking an advanced standing exam, didn't go so well ... actually not required for the computer science major, and I was a comp sci major for my first ~2 years at MIT, so I didn't take it freshman spring

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  doesn't cut it for my social battery anymore, so I make an active effort ... activation energy for doing so was dummy high and because I didn't want to miss ... suitable for children in the slighest. be careful lol

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / En Español

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  Center acting as the central hub for Latino students and student ... suspense for that question either, I don't know the answer. I would sure hope ... for the 2014 Cena a las Seis was MIT Professor Junot Díaz. He spoke

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and ... in two alliances of three teams each going head to head for a few minutes. The game is also broken up into 3 sections, autonomous (where the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012