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• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Thank you for reading by Jess K. '10 ADMIT ME PLZ? by Chris S. '11 ... story for you... by Chris M. '12 The Re-Froshening by Piper '13 Alum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  up for hours and hours hating myself as I reread the same paragraphs ... excitement for what's really happening. Now, when I write, it feels emptier and ... for my 6.006 pset, I just started snapping back with angry, aggressive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... [annotation note="an icon within the mechanical engineering department for not only being a whiz with anything electrical (or musical) but also for

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

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... concept that you've struggled with for a long time. B. You remember the ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... upperclassmen or the Admissions Office hear, for this is top-secret information ... few other things you should know. #1: Get to know your host. For the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

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  MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The ... , because I was watching Queen's Gambit while stitching this up. Between an ... enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... rest of RingComm, presented our designs for the 2020 brass rat! It was ... for the presentation, so it all worked out! Kidist: After several

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... and trivial. for example, when i draw, i'm spurred by the prospect of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by ... by semester or department and search for keywords. ((Side note: It ... first one that came up absolutely blew my mind, because the second I read

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  the noises of the world, even for just a couple of minutes. It’s almost ... can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... . Walking up the steps after getting off at Harvard Square and being greeted

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  there and felt my stomach sink. Wait, really? High school was easy for all ... process, like anything else. You get up. You move on with your life. You ... junior college their first two years, for example, and do very well. In

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  week has been really tough and really strange for everyone on campus, and ... searched for the Boston Globe article that i knew would have been written. i found it. i read it. and then i searched for the MIT admissions blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... - instead, check out Chris S.'s awesome entry. The essays are a chance for ... what I love, I - for better or worse - took it rather literally, and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  for any mice expressing an extended circadian period but otherwise ... -and-dirty method of looking for a mutation, the most obvious one being the sheer ... it as both an "epic fall" and an "epic fail." He also laughed at me for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... ending some cheap drink promotions and making some retailers help pay for ... Kane '11 Freshers week means just one thing for most first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... shirt. Did they know who he was? Did they understand the principles for ... : “My stomach turned as I stepped foot for the first time into Ma

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and ... close connections with professors for graduate school reference letters. I ... us in many ways. What we want most is for people to watch the videos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  person living nearest me whom I've known for the longest—I think we've been friends for four or five years now. The first observation he makes upon ... , especially if they're someone you haven't seen for a while. Tumaba ka ata

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a ... a Hong Kong university campus for MIT's IROP research exchange program ... 'm already stressed about finding an internship for next summer. Shaking all

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015