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  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... double major in[annotation note="Biological Engineering"]Course 20 ... planned to double in Course 20 and[annotation note="Science, Technology, and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever ... continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  lots of emotions for day 1 of my freshman year. Thoughts ran like mad in ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... ceiling, breathing in and out. Moments of sitting reclined in my rolling

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 661. Though they are all different in their own ... want to make the most informed decision we can in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... the role writing plays in my own life: Yes, that you travel inside of. I ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and spend days in my room, sitting alone in nice weather; don't want to have ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 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 / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... , this blog is certainly not going to satisfy that curiosity. (You’re in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book ... there was a general arc and story in the way the poems were presented and ... -like, but there were several gems in there that balanced those other poems out

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 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 / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 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