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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways ... made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion ... ...mushiness. Mushiness comes in sentiment form. People like that-friend-you-haven't-spoken

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building ... in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... wall in Building 14 highlighted several economists such as Joshua Angrist

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in each others' arms, screamed profanities in the courtyard, maxed out the ... me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects and my budding interest in pursuing computer science despite not having

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  were in general much more hardk0re. East Campus in its original manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... , unless you had seen me sitting there fidgeting in the waiting room, I don ... Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  with no end in sight. That nagging, hopeful feeling that you’re so close ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the coolest showcases of student culture here. Students pitch in their talents ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... had any interest whatsoever in actually attending MIT; I read the blogs

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster, less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... harsh though, but considering how there are so many premeds in that class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... -deprecating disclaimers aside... Things you will see in this video: angst, pretty shots of ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015