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• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  . If I choose to stay in this dorm, can I keep the same room?" The answer ... " units, for example, have been in biology.) You can count a single subject ... , and who can argue with that? Also, I'd encourage you to look at what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to ... well-paced, so I didn’t struggle too much. I can’t wait to leave the ... credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  ways in which I can learn how to use it for good, rather than just being ... with Raymond showed me that I can be in these really intense, serious ... how far I've come in such a short amount of time. 2022 was a year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class ... "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  just that good and that it could melt in your mouth like that. I can say ... so many wonderful people in this city. By God’s grace, my sister and I ... ’t think this would have happened if I went to school in another city outside

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

    ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for ... Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... it's really hard to recover. I can't tell you how many times I've slept ... Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... regulations from going into effect; you can read the complaint here. In the ... where they come from. I know firsthand the anxiety of arriving in this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... backlog of things to do grew larger. Friday, April 16th, in the Evening I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  item in your hands and say, I know how this was made, or so you can look ... learned in the previous units. After I finished the test, I wandered to ... by the end, you can sit back in your chair and understand how the world

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  real thing I can compare this to is ESP, and in that sense it's actually ... know how every puzzle in this hunt works. Throughout the year, I ... that I'd imagine different people are interested in. In the end, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... ?" and "How do I bake a cake?" to all translate into "recipe(cake)" as well, I can't simply code some instructions that direct a specific phrase

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  dating websites. When I read it in Freakonomics, I freaked out. And then I ... bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It ... year. Not too shabby, eh? Anyway, I bring up Freakonomics in the first

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  , grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... classic what-classes-am-I-taking-this-term post. I'm signed up for 66 units of classwork this year. In theory, one unit corresponds to one hour of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  in Harrisburg, PA and I thought I'd spend it posting old photos on this ... photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  . Unfortunately, whenever I wash my dishes in my hall's sink (which measures about 1 ... ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... how great they are. So, I've compiled a list! For the prefrosh out there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  eight. You say, “Mom, can I buy that entire cake and eat it?” Of course ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... ="Pizza, you idiot, you were in Naples"]pizza[/annotation] . I was ready once

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite was blue-masked, then another guy in my suite appeared one day with a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009