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• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  Here's the thing about me: I'm naturally an introvert. Talking to people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small ... talking to myself than I did talking to other people. My conversations with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... patterns. To the extent that this is true - and to the extent that Apple products, from my Macbook to my iPhone, are omnipresent in my life - Steve

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  SPECIAL DOUBLE BONUS ENTRY!! I didn't actually write this entry on Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take ... 'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... -Conner?"]housing.[/annotation] It was really nice to see that the professor cares about (a) making the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan, relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... . Took weekend trips to NYC, Montreal. Saw my first Fourth of July

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... 's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all ... learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... upperclassmen gallantly agreed to give us piggyback rides. Eventually I decided I ... attempted to propel myself off his back, except that with my knees roughly

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  added bonus of getting to watch the SuperBowl on the bar TV. Not that it ... blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this semester. My method of doing this has been going out to [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team ... -and-hopefully-improved-but-probably-not-yet courseroad 2.0, successor to blogger danny b.d. '15's courseroad which has many ... to plan out schedules when i have the time: student

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... [/annotation] agreed that this would be hard, but I really would like to graduate ... what MIT is like; you need to do something, but it is very hard, but you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes. Obviously my response is directed to parents, but I thought it was important

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  at the sky, bonus points if I can see stars. I try my best to spend ... on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  's nice to be blogging again. :) bonus picture: what my room looks like ... returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some ... essentials for you the student to pick up at the store through Pack & Hold ... campus. -- a swimsuit, if you wish to beat the required swim test and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  return. What's that, Andrew? You'd like to give me your signing bonus after ... to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... happens Please note that No-Shave-November is similar to, but distinct from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  had the added bonus of being a great excuse to procrastinate studying ... the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite ... folding table, a giant BLOOD MOON FEST banner, and access to the Simmons

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of Mollie B. '06's post re:MacG remains true, but I may need to update some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... front of a panel of distinguished judges. To the victor go the spoils. And

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  out what works for you. Bonus tip: I don't usually listen to music when ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013