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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  , in fact, qualified and smart enough to get through it. I don't have a ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending ... something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  motivation to get out of bed in the morning. Maybe then I'll make it to the dining hall in time for breakfast. 2. I love to eat. Because I live in ... 'll slip in a shout-out to good old Mac High--but here, things move fast. Too

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a ... , which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... think so. And Ryan went to the Party in Philly: I went to the admitted student party in Philadelphia tonight. I knew it was going to be fun, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact ... . In the eighth grade, while we were all fracturing off to different high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... thing I identify with when I think about who I am and how I want to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  patience to watch the office in its entirety but was able to get through the ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... . this process was very helpful in the sense that it allowed me to finish

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  !" "It's getting hot in here... so immigrate [sic] to Israel with all your ... Hillel after this incident. In short, I was invited to a "Jew-au on Ice" in ... was really afraid because your hand has to get really close to the flame

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... could get painting, so I resolved to paint the tree over spring break ... 't get started until winter break. My zeroth step was to clean my door

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  or profound. People are able to get in even with spelling errors in ... ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the ... . It's virtually impossible to summarize yourself in a few paragraphs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn ... ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a ... exist in east Cambridge. My vegetarianism will probably end when I get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  having while listening to the radio, but nobody else in the class ... she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she ... . But first I want to tell you about the most exciting part of the trip--getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of ... wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  authentically. We can’t write about what it’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing, or deciding how to pick your ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... : Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II! 1. Consider majoring in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  professors, from people in S^3 (if it pertains to getting good academic habits ... actuality, not everyone has to study intensely through high school in order to get in. Personally, aside from mandatory homework that was assigned

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  tour to know I worked in Admissions instead wanting them to get pay ... 've heard Alina's story, I'll need to drop in on the others guides' tours to ... skulking in the back, in the red shirt...listening to every word!

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  in learning how to CAD simple objects. No more 30 minutes of screaming ... stuff, and voila you get to see how aerodynamic the original object was ... it would, one of the many cool things you get to learn in solar car

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6 ... increased my distances until I was ready to run my first half marathon.  In ... stress fracture in my left foot.  I had to completely stop running from

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016