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• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed ... receiving the head scritches I am dying to give them. [carousel image1 ... of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  little power to actually change anything. There’s no ‘taking my anger to ... wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  free time and loneliness. While I generally try not to literally do ... hard to continually motivate myself to finish my outstanding psets and ... it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... wanted to update with some thoughts and things since the spring semester ... and talking with people, I made the ultimate decision to drop 6.009. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of ... . It's been a long semester. I had to take four course 16 classes, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to ... week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all to write things down. Fully immersing myself in every single moment

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to ... underclassmen are matched up with upperclassmen and you are given $5 to go out and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  possible to exactly predict how many students will attend this year. To help ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  Go back to December 16, 2010. It was just another Thursday night ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Congratulations! You have finally been accepted to college! 4 ... Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005