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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was psetting at Next House during spring semester of freshman year when Will ... this video of Will (CubanCrescendo!) singing JJ Lin’s “我很想爱她”, recorded

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... of these things happened Oral surgery - Jan. 25 20th Birthday

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  , which runs throughout the month of January"]IAP.[/annotation] I also got hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five ... the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a ... that you could get D's in most of your classes and it wouldn't affect

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... : Gryffindor + INFJ End of Freshman IAP: Gryffindor + ENFP End of Freshman Year ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . Concourse offers its own versions of the[annotation note="General Institute ... Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... , after I watched like one episode of [annotation note="I also had a brief

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  off every day, leaving you with 1) an invariable daily sense of ... . 1. Control your thoughts. Do not think of anything violent or ... protective shield of white light, or in a safe place. Telepathic EBEs may get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole musical. expect a bad ending. hermes tells us this in one of the most upbeat

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  of CMU. I've never been much of a tourist, but if a friend was offering ... I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of ... surface Cause underneath I could tell No, I couldn't, I couldn't tell One of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about ... Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... last week of May, then I hope this will be helpful! I myself am pretty

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... offer (blogpost on work and whatnot coming soon). There were days, though ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... picked the right major!   (An example of some ridiculousness from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... a couple days ago -- an official sign of winter's approach. i arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the ... ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork ... making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  is the medium of instruction" school. My school offers a very limited ... specifics of academic potential are part of of match ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005