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• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  I think the advice that has helped me the most is the advice from ... sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in ... comfortable with the fact that I didn't know much and was more ready to ask for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  Controls or Structures seemed like the most utterly romantic thing to do in ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... learned in the previous units. After I finished the test, I wandered to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc ... notes in the mountains. The vegetation here is different. I know the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... amount of block you have. One of the biggest lessons I learned in ESP is the importance of a program's logistics. Back in high school, I used to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  W. '16, is a project that explores the modern fad in personal ... When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what ... mattered. Embracing the unknown is always hard. But it's good to practice ... , please breathe, relax, and ground yourself. If the emotions become too much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  'll start seeing more blogs from them in the days/weeks/months/years to come. In the meantime, I want to thank everyone who applied to be a blogger ... Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  Good Memories -This year, I seemed to find new friendships in the most ... shower curtain there. (In the future I aim to meet the most brainrotted ... originally chose this class because I wanted to be in [annotation note="The

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  , forestry, and fishing in Japan -> Bean -> Soybean The goal is to go ... repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a ... still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  nice to live in a more relaxed East Campus in the previous months. I ... fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  scales (up to 9 months). In particular, the Niño3.4 index is a single ... integrated climate models (in fact, the GEOS model is a contributor to Sub ... months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  crushingly sad but also inspiring; I resolved to make the most of my remaining ... —preemptively, at that—is nothing but painful. The seniors got to experience four ... impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  losing a sketchbook you’ve worked hard on is one of the most devastating ... Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... over the years, including the most recent one. The first was a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  experience. The week ahead (our last one!) is short, but we still have much ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in ... city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  with you. Most ECs will take notes during the interview, and that is to ... interested in MIT. My advice is not to let it get the best of you. If you are ... right after) the deadline. It’s in your best interest not to be part of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  I got this email in my inbox: ------------------------------ Hi Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... , January 12th at 12pm in Lobby 7. Thanks! Jennifer for The Evil Midnight

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this ... interested in coming. Truly, his breast is full of the milk of human kindness ... (what's the point, then?) and you only have to sing one song in all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... "MIT student." You can laugh at me now. (the irony is I used to be quite ... convenience of being able to type an essay in the comfort of one's own room or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010