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  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  . Writing has become a part of my life in ways I haven’t quite expected. At ... Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  me into choosing a major at the start of my college experience, because ... it down. And while at the end of my first-year, I still wasn’t fully ... getting much out of all of this, it all did come at a cost: the opportunity

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  large rock. Bodies of water have an unwritten contract: if you look at ... of my life, and I like to tell myself, at least, that I’ve done the ... Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... . Among other things.” “Sure, I’ll help you eat that whole pan of brownies ... hometown friends are back at school and already a week into their second

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  class best taken at MIT, as the Institute is on the forefront of ... practice the new material. And, at the end of the semester, we get to write ... Media (Seth is the head of the Science Writing program at MIT, one of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  haven’t. However, at the time, my part 2 of my MIT application was ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  program at the same campus (SSP Ojai 2006) my junior year of HIGH SCHOOL ... they're roommates! So all of us are doing well here at Sinai, and after ... of time, Simmons Hall opened during his senior year at MIT. It was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LOOK AT MY NOTION!!!!!! 🌱 my notion is very pretty. i spent 5 entire days on it so pls notice…

  

  bonus: my pinterest page for notion pictures the homepage of my notion, establishing a strong theme of "green" more of my home page! goals are just classes from this iap…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out. Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  product showcase at the end of term in front of hundreds of industry experts ...   On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  at all, and it would be sad but indicative of the fact that there's a ... and many other communities I'm familiar with at MIT, a lot of traditions ... freshmen. So, at the end of the day, traditions aren't super important and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  big presentations per year? They're usually at the end of a unit or ... snowballed into a lot of repressed anger and frustration being released at each ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  I’ve gotten a little better at planning. I use a Notion now like all ... way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... left last week's assignments here so you'll look at this and think, "wow

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  scores at the time of EA selection, we'll simply defer an applicant to Regular Action (with no penalty, of course) and consider him/her at that ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the ... .) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  visually striking. I made this one out of sticky notes at work! Excavated ... specific model from a book owned by one of my previous professors at MIT ... About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017 ... 2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017