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• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  there in the name). So, I figured I’d use this post to give thanks. I’m thankful for the opportunity to be home in Michigan for Thanksgiving. I ... you don’t need to be stressed and will get a [annotation note="I won

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all ... studying the subject, since I found it was easy to "get by" by just doing the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  came to my hometown, but just happened to be in Boston during one of my ... call two places home and I have many different people to call when I get ... cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... , even though it was pouring rain and freezing. I elected to stay in bed ... think dinosaurs are cool too.) After shopping, Adam's mom needed to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don ... different professors, getting a response from 1 (just to say the class was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  to come even harder, but reminding myself how much pain she was in ... lucky to have had her in my life, and I know how much joy she brought ... to play shogi and how to tend to his garden, and he took me all over

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  's already broken - what's important is getting to the root of the problem in ... , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... of C. elegans, works in the lab right next to my UROP with the same

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... )lucky as the delegates in this year's UNSC committee, you also had to stay ... leave the world better than how we found it - in some shape or form. And

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  audience member in my own life? Recently, I dictated to my friend exactly the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a ... success. But I was almost obsessive. I had to set the curves in my classes

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbdUPKD8ek"]revelation;[/annotation]I came in stressed out to all hell about ... far away from your host dorm room, or you go back to your room to get ... right for you. In particular, don't feel pressured to go to tons of events

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  to Pecker.       This is what I come home to in the evening. I get to ... things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which ... this year.   In Loop lounge, Bruna M. ‘15 and Alan ‘14 were trying to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last & ... ; in the dead of night, the gold i had woven turned out to be dust ... something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  *bassoonist* for advice on what size cup to get. We laughed in our failure ... find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , he didn't get to eat any Angel Food Cake. He only got to look at six ... they are terrible. HOW CAN YOU HATE THIS FACE, PETEY!? All in all, the ... lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... restaurant and even after when we were just getting some ice cream, because ... learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... walked into class and sat in my usual chair, and thought about how a young ... -class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to ... to be willing to participate; if you engage yourself in the vibrant ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  ) explained to me how to get the answer. He started by drawing an integral ... 't need to get ready tomorrow morning. So what final details of my freshman ... 's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  might be interested in how going to school impacts people’s incomes. We ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... essence, what we’d like to understand the chains of cause-and-effect in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021