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• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... beanbag in the sun :( we hate sun it burns[/caption] 4. banana lounge is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... . Despite what you see in some online circles, prestige should NEVER be on ... a bar that each school has to clear in order to remain on your radar

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most ... good things i have seen  recently, in no particular order at all. come ... . like, actually, this man is losing his damn mind in a way you have to see

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... talks. This terrified my roommates and me because we thought we were in trouble, when in reality, they were just making sure my dumb self hadn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  delays and disruptions from the ongoing pandemic.  In the last few weeks ... applicants who want to put their proverbial best foot forward in our ... I have stated this in this short blog post, but there is a lot going

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the ... . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... backend for our app. We ended up crashing in the hackers’ lounge for only a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for ... of the same page, or opening messenger every two and a half minutes in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  interviews (30 interviews in the span of a week and a half can be rough, as is ... various environmental and sustainable development groups in the region. So ... : cooking up a few messy storms in the kitchen, simultaneously organizing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  's worth of reading...even in technical classes! :O Recently a big chunk of ... -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... user interfaces. We read a couple of papers published in 1990 (!) by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of these people we ask one quick question as we hustle on in our lives. In ... , not in anticipation of a meaningful answer. More so, we’re inclined to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  was back in Japan wandering through museums again, which added a nice ... modern art today will one day be classified as traditional and classical in ... interesting. Japanese fashion was trendy back in the Impressionist period, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  person in a given time period, and also the people who they’ve introduced ... /received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails in the first half of the first semester, then I imagine that this graph

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at ... numbers involved, in spite of writing memes all day”. After that, I wandered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  reasonable hour. NOPE! It's 3:58 AM here in China. ---- My birthday is in less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do ... and mix in some transitions while trimming off the excess fat. Then I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  session, woke up in the evening, had a nice dinner with my friend, and then ... is hell, i have descended to the 9th circle and am hangin' out in the ... literally my entire grade in the class. melodrama filled the gaps. more 6

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... in Cambridge and Boston is across the Charles River. Connecting the two is the Harvard Bridge. Many MIT students live in Boston, whether in a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014