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  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the ... ’ve been having about MIT: How hard are classes, really? What kinds of things

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to spend your time instead of freaking out about upcoming admissions decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  the fiery shades of leaves in the trees covered the faintest clouds in ... : "Hey, This election means a lot to all of us. And right now, a lot of us ... losing sleep right now." When I arrived, a group of students, adults, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... ’ve been procrastinating). That is, until I found an exhaustive list of quotes from the lovely captain of the lightweight women’s crew team, Sharon

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... melts during the day except in the shadow of the house. I call my ... valleys. Mornings are foggy; nights are cold. On the 4th of July you can

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding. Many of us have big adventures and exciting weeks, and I do too, but most

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  've been following the MIT blogs, recall the number of times we wrote that ... publishing deal for Chronicles of Narnia after 2 years of trying and failing ... , here is a list of Themed Online Distractors for MIT Decision Day: Pre

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  some of you, and we Bloggers also met each other--most of our interaction ... of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being ... speaking, I already am a sophomore...o__O Yet, the density of my experiences

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  talk about the history of computing. He was inspired by Marco Tempest ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of technology in magic). Colin ‘16 re-created the trick in the opening scene of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn ... love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I ... - with the incredible Professor Bill Corbett.  It was one of the last

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions ... -set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... . Let the games begin!! *** Er…I was expecting a fancy cloud of smoke

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC/no record grading system, I get the pleasure of being acquainted with

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking habits, suppressed middle school memories of having my roller backpack ... you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of

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

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  It's pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a ... sense of humor: 1) This article. 2) My bff Sam B. '14's post on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... . Recitation This is usually your first line of defense when you leave lecture ... will swear that recitations are the worst possible waste of your time

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  , cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer ... our shared ambitions of livestreaming graduation from our hats, I ... freshman year), none of the good shops are available after midnight. My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day of third grade, when after a few minutes of reading from a picture book ... .06 instead of 7.05. Oops. I retreated with my freshly free hour and a bagel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the opportunities I have here? Am I happy here? During one of my reflection times, one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of ... the room and attached another bag of morphine to the plastic tube which ... weeks staring at the ceiling, pondering life, pain, and the existence of a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011