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• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include ... ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL ... to head over and get down with our bad selves. If you want to feel ... up to this summer, but for now, keep sending in those questions! *Just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  essentially visit anywhere in the world for free, while getting to gain ... ! How much do you want to get out of these 4 or so years of your life? Are ... University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  more about how to enact change—not in some grandiose, ego-fueled "I want ... graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the ... myself and my circle. Relatedly, I want to get better at talking to those I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... most prevalent and preventable problem in developing areas around the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  so often don’t get the chance to experience in high school, especially ... Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly-In ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  , we have managed to get this labor of love live! I hope, in this time ... them on Github. In the meantime, I'm going to get back to reading ... shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around ... disparities, imagine how hard it must be to actually be in their shoes, and to ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at ... ’m hoping to see some other friends in the Midwest.  How it’s going so far ... confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  talking in Spanish anyway. She was a lost tourist who wanted to get to the ... legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the ... item. I was determined not to use Google Translate, in part because my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  'm Vietnamese, would you tell me about how to get a scholarship from MIT?" Hi Nam ... 's just an accepted social norm that in college people really want to get to ... tests i have to give to get admission in b.tech in computers." As far as

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  bask in the glow of getting the MIT fat packet. Once that moment is over, get back in the game because you have a big decision to make in the next ... , once your moment is over, you need to get back in the game as well

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don ... making negative progress in learning how to swim, the hardest class I ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction ... on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... never quite seem to figure that out and, in true tortoise-and-hare fashion

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would be happy to respond to, as well) about how we stay organized and how we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  (where I am) in the morning. You get to decide what you will do today, and ... factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own ... sometimes we get caught up in things that don't actually mean as much as we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  .01 when others are taking 18.02 - you'll all get to where you want to be in ... blog would never get written - so here goes. I'm also going to stray ... same applied for 7.013 in the spring. Alright - to be honest - it isn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus[/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... east coast doesn't hold a candle to the west coast in terms of japanese

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... how much effort I put into my classes, I can't seem to get a result that ... effort I put in to make a change. How long can I hope that this time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022