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  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... money each student needs in financial aid to attend MIT. We will meet ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics ... seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... once it’s frozen, you throw it in a food processor with a bit of lemon

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... . MIT took me in, ragged at the edges, with sharp spots and pieces that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified, with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... that we call Sekkrit Satan. The premise is the similar in that everyone

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... ... Vermont — my east campus hall visited Wilmington in early October. it was wonderful—we hiked, walked around the town, and hung out in our super nice

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  -day music festival in Delaware. as an MIT student, this seems unthinkable ... ,[/annotation] indeed............. I decided to go to Firefly back in May. the tickets ... -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... time, i've never actually seen an improv show in person, just read about ... had to do a live performance in front of retired cast members. the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  support students living in cook-for-yourself communities. As you'll read ... (Random, East Campus, MacGregor, New House). In these dorms, students have ... -for-yourself communities, including some of the cultural houses in New House and some FSILGs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across ... dorms on campus. If someone likes a different dorm from the one they're in ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  figure out what classes I wanted to take. I was registered in 10 different ... in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who ... . Nothing significant had changed in my diet, sleep schedule, or lifestyle

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of emotions that when released, flew around the room in every which way

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer ... a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... cringeworthy in the email that caused her to redflag me. She forwarded the email

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times ... descriptions I could. So, in a particular, but not chronological, order, here are ...   BBQ With Tireswinging A historic tradition in Senior Haus, we had

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  is not sticking the glass back in the furnace. &amp ... taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline in the place you would like the glass to break (it becomes the weakest

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of ... am awake is spent going back and forth from the building in which I ... 's at least one problem, usually in a little low-stakes class called 8

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of your own internal state, and I keep noticing in various unrelated

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is ... consider them in any deliberate construction of a sleep schedule. The social ... the world and what I value (versus what I’ve thought I valued in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of ... 's considering doing a UROP in Brain and Cognitive Sciences as an EECS major. But ... night before. 11:00am- Interview with Lincoln Labs in Kendall Square. MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014