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• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  your questions (which I have copied below) and learn some new things as ... because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Mia. Oh well, how can I resist? ... Right now, I am sitting and blogging live from Boston's amazing new ... Mass Ave, practically in view of home...and then I got distracted by the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can't tell is ... surprisingly well. If you’ve never used it I can’t promise it’ll make you fluent ... sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  Regular Action. In the email, please include your full name, date of birth ... . Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until ... Bridge application, along with the QB supplement, in place of our first
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and ... : Come on, anyone? Aw, what the heck. I stayed in Simmons this summer, and ... reasonable size. Back out in the courtyard, I informed the rush chairs that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  i can usually stave this feeling off and it only manifests itself in the early morning and late at night. i wonder how long i can last before ... can only imagine how he has survived without scurvy for this long). I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a ... ; Last semester, I went through tough times. things were going on in my ... felt like I let myself down felt guilty like, how dare I let myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  . Ever since I stepped foot in the station during CPW, I knew that I wanted ... Zeppelin Hopefully you can see how the name of my show is relevant now! Not ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year Everyone! See you in 2006.

  

  I'm outa here until Monday, January 2 and I won't be able to respond to email or blog comments until that time, so I just wanted to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a safe & fun New Year's! (I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  of my photos have changed in size. I'm not quite sure how this happened ... I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did ... 's quite simply one of the best games in the world. Looking the hack over, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA ... bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in the very least, good quality tortillas in a super market. Not only did I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... I was doing at the exact time it happened?" I can't say I'm happy with the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and unpack later (in some imaginary future wherein I have ample unstructured ... and Planning major in me got real excited. The exhibit considers "how

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in Hamilton that I can break down and relate to my life, but this one strikes me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  knowing how badly i keep in touch with people, i'd have stopped talking to ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the ... take the midterm today in two hours and 19 minutes, as of the moment I’m writing this of course. But I can’t find the motivation to study. The

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the ... document. Essentially, I can see myself from the past writing, deleting, and ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  named. Some people call it hell week, but I've found that even in the ... sessions too often when it got closer to "bedtime," and you can see just how dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011