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• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in ... , I'm sneaky alright). The point that I'm trying to make instead is that ... language teacher was probably the best thing that happened to me in the way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  to force myself to go do something else, the usual result is that I both DON'T do something else, and feel guilty. Which is pretty much the ... to say that it's the "top sliver" because there is no rational way to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  in your near-adult life. Because there is just so much to do all the ... someone you can wave at in the hallways or DM for notes is a good way to ... doable? Is this too much? Do you have time to eat, time to go to the gym

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern ... stipend (which, in the 2023-2024 school year, is about $4000/month before ... financially feasible for students to pursue the degree. Social life is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  campus is to the left of the frame; you can see the Green Building on the ... same lab I’ve been in for the past year. It’s extremely unlikely to ... into our backs at the end of every term and I didn't want to go out in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  can’t make the time to. Once an assignment is turned in, I can’t reflect ... institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that ... plumbing thing, and the crowd went WILD. Well, not everyone in the crowd, because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  this is, in fact, not the case. I still have so much to learn about ... life. And she cut me off in the middle to say "Cam, those are things ... I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with ... hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much ... everywhere. That was in no way what I'd been looking forward to. Maybe

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  community meshes with your sense of self the best and is the most fun to be ... In the many days prior to Kresge Kickoff, I kept saying it, kept ... kept repeating it to myself in the hopes that if I said it enough times

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone ... . Knowing little has driven me to know more. The best I can do now is take

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  , neither is it the most "valid" path. Perfectionism wants you to believe that ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... software. This is where I came in. It was my job to make the necessary ... October... if you come in prepared to be the most amazing #1 person at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  .[/annotation] In the end, I think there is more to crochet than stitches. It's a ... 's three stops on the Red Line to Porter Station"]Where is the nearest yarn ... on a number of factors, and the capability of one is relative to the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year ... that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... . Shooting a bottle-rocket 200 feet in the air and somehow managing to not

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  walking in those furry two-foot-long shoes, you have to complete the ... freshmen trip to the New England Aquarium.   In the aquarium, it was ... Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  . finding an activity to do is also hard. thankfully, we share the common ... will blog all the way to [annotation note="a gorgeous city park in ... city park in the US which is pretty cool"]boston commons [/annotation

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  alphabetical order: Paul Baranay '11 lives in Simmons, and 20 is currently the ... major in 11 (she writes, "I know that my major is the same as Anthony ... before reaching final decisions. In the end, we reached consensus without

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself ... most of the discussion, given that I had only been in an MIT dorm for ... , the MetX is what DormCon had used to refer to the Metropolitan Warehouse

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017