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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  478614235 times. 30. I dress how I feel when i wake up. 31. I like being visited. 32. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason. 33. I hate when people ... clothes for my closet/dresser. 37. I hate to sleep. 38. I think I am smart

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... find that here. There are a lot of cultural affinity groups not only for

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... . At some dorms it's even normal for freshmen to have singles (most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my ... snowiness -- it's not showing up well in the thumbnail.) Notice the cheerful ... ", which was unveiled at the official opening ceremony for the Picower Center

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  I always wanted to be. We came up with some funny ideas for satirical ... design part of the lab was helpful studying for one of the quiz sections ... put braille type stickers on board books for young blind children. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... catching up on email and various projects I'm behind on since returning from ... . I feel like such a nerd for taking a picture of the engine, but it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• 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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• 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