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  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  essays are not unique enough. You’ve put in years of hard work to get into ... corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can ... meals. And the laundry you don’t have to do. You’re worried how the future

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  how to code in three weeks. The lab assistants, TAs, and lecturers were ... , which never gets quite dark enough in the winter time. The snow reflects ... FUTURE for a moment, and take time to get back your energy, hold the reset

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... and pick up random stuff. Somehow that led her to a degree in Course XVI

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

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  'm very excited to get my own copy of this ring in April. It might just be a ... really fun to see everyone from our class all together, and realize how ... , though, is because I won the raffle :0 I guess as an incentive to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  , they get to relive their triumph to an interested audience, in the latter ... part of MIT culture, that they believe in, that they wish to uphold for ... were part of the group that decided how to structure the Simmons

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged ... came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... plan in retrospect, but in the moment, I remember how I didn’t know what

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  had slept) to go back to my room in East Campus and I don't know, listen to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about how many unread emails I had in my inbox, decide to skip my HASS class

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we ... . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... confidence that you have learned “how to think.” With that in mind, enjoy CPW ... assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in ... everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... to the dining halls in other dorms, so do you cook every meal? Thanks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque ... discussion around gentrification in the city and how to approach the city ... never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , four friends and I drove to Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire, which somehow ... Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  might need more than the incredibly awesome How to Get Around MIT guide ... freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international ... 'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I ... gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... the Van Allen Radiation Belt HOW COOL WAS THAT?! I was in. (But it

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  get first! It was a dream come true to compete in a sport I’d been ... growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... , did a remote hackathon, voted by mail, and tried tons of new recipes. In

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the

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

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  couple days, leaving me to overthink in bed. It happened as soon as I moved ... that rotting in bed alone is a privilege, not a right. So to distract ... time of editing, Tyler's new album comes out in two days and naturally I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  [/annotation]. One, to go along with Angela in Guam and Emily in New Jersey, Karthik ...  Let's get right to it. What went into making this year's Pi ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... class that's showed me how to be more comfortable with my writing and take ... they wanted to be featured and I got some poems in response! I absolutely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  to get emails and screennames to be in touch with fellow MIT 2014s ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... . There will be meetings in dozens of locales, including New York City

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010