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• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... the various paraphernelia I was going to smuggle into graduation in ... usable; I was able to reliably holster or unholster my phone one-handed in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the ... most faculty are looking for people to help advance their projects in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  outlets to any location in your room. For some reason the outlet overlords always put outlets in the most inconvenient locations, so surge protectors ... wanted to. Now, whether or not you have the discipline NOT to is a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  explored and changed course. It is okay to have been in the school orchestra ... to tell. Choose carefully! (On the other hand, in any case, there is ... you feel that you have to misrepresent the truth dramatically in order

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  that you see in 80s movies, which is the primary and most powerful way ... much older laptop. Or the time I went to a company info session and was ... most developers use. To the point that on my old ThinkPad, I had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I ... with aplomb in their attempts to woo the judges. My personal favorite was ... for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  of completion is the most satisfying way for me to feel like I ... to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  few hours and went up to check it out. This is Brian: Over the past ... her colors to contrast these delicate celery curtains. Her room is the ... in New Orleans. Looking to the left in my room. Eventually the bed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  taken in the spring in an online format. An initiative is underway to ... platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... allow instructors to focus on critical content in the classroom and rely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  the opportunity, we had to try to squeeze in another restaurant visit ... going to come from. But in the true spirit of work-play balance, I ... some of my best friends (plus, I got to eat some of the most delicious

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  tent in the dark, did some reading (I'm most of the way through this) and ... off the road in thickets; you slid or stumbled to get from one to the ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... huge, huge silver lining is that I've had the chance to formally live ... this is just to say, we're both pretty bored people at the moment. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... that gender identity is important to me. He begins to explain in detail ... interested and his tone is not in the least bit condescending. I smile and say

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  had seen in stores, but I was hesitating to buy it. They got the plushie ... keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to ... would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  , and is, in fact, the whiteboard that's in Shuli's house. To see just ... ’m starting this off with the how-to guide. All that other content is down below the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... heat pumps.  In the three weeks, I have mostly just snuggled and fed and ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  ’ shift is the core of the poem. i would like to think that in my villanelle ... ‘warm’ is the core.  i would like to think that i have found home. in ... week. it is an amazing place, with lots to do, but the weirdest thing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022