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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient ... challenge. But is it sustainable to undertake it all the time? What I really ... turn around and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  the actual country-continent relationship, there is a ton of overlap in ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we ... into, for example, and time to participate in the greater Boston

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... 'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion ... elsewhere in the summer. These people then sublet their space to students like ... ) than the dorms. Rent a room in an MIT FSILG. Most off-campus FSILGs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ’s charge to the graduates is one of the most inspiring speeches I’ve watched ... the matter is, when I was in high school, MIT sounded like the most fun ... ran out of classes to take in the areas I love most; for virtually every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... , according to Steph, the most frequently asked question, besides "Turkeys into ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  : It's About the Match College is about much more than books and classes ... 'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... Year: Find Your Home When you're starting out in college, the most

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A ... observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy ... high honor, but it is one which I received."]play in the all ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... to the B-Entry lounge in MacGregor to film with some cow livers, and ... there to help out with whatever the most urgent needs of the production

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  to have. All you do is put in the address you're starting from, where ... for students. Because I live in Cambridge, the most effective way to me ... -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... laptops in their book bags or purses, exposed to the elements. The thought ... wanted to go is terrifying. Worse yet, think how much more traumatic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... it that one problem set due the next day? Is it the long to do list ... why that is a trigger to your anxiety. Ever hear of the saying "bring

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy ... 've come to call my home? Is it Mountain View, the city I'm living in for the ... expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  fact is one of the main factors in about 90% of the things I listed in my ... ). This in turn leads to things like casual use of the n word by non ... your life. So to a lot of people the n word is just another word because

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  students in the real world is that to survive here, you become an expert at ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... complete without the acknowledgment that it is a place where you will most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• 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 / 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