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• 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

  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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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 / 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
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  religious ceremonies, different in that the population of the former is ... you can't make a difference.” --President Obama “To the young people in ... -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  since 2019 due to the pandemic. DTYD is traditionally held in Burton ... .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... place in Hamilton House, the place where the Bombers were exiled to when

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  the most chaotic affair I’ve had to see in my relatively short MIT ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  fact that there are two beds in one of the rooms is sort of irrelevant to ... guess, because what I do is really not all that extraordinary in the ... Tech about a year ago: "MIT is the kind of place you love to hate, but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  spent the past two years in Cambridge, Massachusetts at MIT. However, this year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  senioritis project–something to do in the time that you procrastinate all of ... someone who believed in the “high school is the best time of your life ... , I know, but remember to enjoy the moment, whatever that moment is for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... to Starbucks for hot chocolate when I don’t make it to the cafe in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021