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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  fraternities as possible in order to really figure out which one is for you ... have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost ... zombie graces the wall across from me, and soon I'll go to bed in my

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  statement. The same application is sent to whichever schools you designate ... the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... , but having the foresight to exercise these traits early in life will

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In ... because I made the choice to. One of the freedoms of having a 9-5 is that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  . For me, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. I started ... tiling managers, as Raymond had raved to me about the power of them in ... science in an effort to document my journey through this twisty and windy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... childhood trips to China, and the memories I had there. One time, we lived in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  linear, as most of the programs I was in went online, and I was not able to ... and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... progressed in 6th grade, and I found myself being scared to eat many of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... advised to bolster your courage and read on. Much more interestingly, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  . The most effective way to fight off noodle-shaped dragon fauns is with ... -melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so ... note to go to more student performances in the future. Friday, November

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Technology Review. The manuscript book is for scratch work on PSETS. How to ... love a class so much at the same time? 18.02 Book Wait, I took ... nestled closely to a book full of the phone numbers of every single freshman

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be ... kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would invest in this class and the environment. Each day, we uber to the ... narratives. The class is 20 people, mostly seniors, who are quite

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... in his book, The Mechanism of Religion: “We today are inclined to see

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  find the most growth is on my own. I'm lucky to have loved and been ... The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... ; specifically what comes to mind is the Schachter-Singer theory, where the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  to see that humor is valued as much as other "typical" applicant ... silicon slides in a round-bottom flask. If we just let them sink to the ... with, “Obviously, the homework set is way much more complicated than

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  whole day -- mostly, we were going through an introduction to the company ... instructions sitting in front of rows and rows of chairs. We (the interns) were then asked to log into Facebook. Afterward, we spent most of our lunch

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I ... is just, well, FUN. After spending the semester learning how to use my ... commitment is relatively low. Back to the classes I am actually taking. 1

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  " is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... placement is everything. All I did in that cozy room was swap the bed and the ... number on the door. "Wait...this is the room that Rob and David lived in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the ... following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  loathsome days, my meals were the main thing I looked forward to. In fact, in ... expensive, I didn’t like the food in the dining halls much or the constrained ... couldn’t eat[/annotation]. To make matters worse, I ate alone in the dining

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  embarking in search of The Great Pumpkin, to discovering  [annotation note ... on its own), and the Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack is my go-to for ... grow, from their infancy in the 50s to their slightly older childhood in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023