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• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... doing badly. This is one of those quotes that works better without context

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop that’s named desktop, that just contains folder versions of my old ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don ... student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the ... whirlwind of finding an apartment in Boston. No free-food events, but plenty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... orientation, and I felt [annotation note="I was older than most of the other ... want one more year of Baker breakfasts with the boys and I want to start

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time ... of 9 externs at Brain Power, 3 in Web Development, 3 in Product

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  called HMMT. Princeton’s version of this is called PUMAC. HMMT sends a contingent of roughly twenty or so people to PUMAC every year as volunteers ... of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... . Scrutinize a block of imagery for theme and characterization? No problem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... field, because STEM is what consumed most of our classes and time and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  feeling of ziplining through the trees. [image_row images="42907 ... using [annotation note="This gives me a lot of nostalgia: https ... intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  last updated: october 22, 5:15 pm   my hall, 2E of Next House, has an annual fall tradition in which we play a hall-wide game of ... two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  :30 → In discussion section, we discuss an inflammatory article in defense of ... recall the article on the “The Coddling of the American Mind,” one of many ... . 12:00 → New observation: Harvard Yard reminds me of the East Campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  . Unlike the majority of admitted students enthusiastically celebrating à la ... more along the lines of “okay, cool?” And boy did I feel guilty about it. Here I was, admitted to a fantastic school, the news of which had

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R ... edged into the middle of the line to the bathroom and after ten minutes of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ... of evaluating ourselves based on what others are doing. I've never felt

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  orientation (safe travels for the rest of you arriving over the weekend!).  It ... you about just a few of the abundant resources around campus - and is by ... stressed out of your mind?  The deans in this office are good to touch base

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build a bridge out of paper, paper clips, and pencils under tight time ... up against those of MIT students? Diane said that the visitors

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  ...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009