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• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  a cop car showed up and just kind of waited there. We ended up hanging ... Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  . I had applied to a Summer Research Fellowship at the University of ... In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  so detached from the larger context of our universe. I hate the idea of ... I made this AI write college essays. Quotes None of these quotes are ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  sheer delusion of your dreams. Release an album? Get a degree? Get a UROP ... anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do– but none of that is important right now. It’s the first day of Junior year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  this. And because of it, I've been thinking a lot about what he said. In ... instances of police brutality and just blatant racism being caught on camera ... been incredibly outspoken. A doesn't-take-your-bullshit kind of attitude

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... (usually) nude model poses in the middle of a room in a series of timed poses

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most ... class I've taken at MIT) about the history and culture of francophone

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  of these well funded research universities. You have the GI Bill, you ...  podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title/framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in alphabetical order (yes, I cannot pick one) from each of her albums and will be ... ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  kinds of things the character likes: You don't hang out with [your friends ... you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter ... through the events of a Friday. The game starts at midnight and continues

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  floorpi. my memories of hanging out with people in the lounge are the better ... part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  , but I had a great time hanging out with a bunch of friends from ... 's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008