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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... one that left MIT. I'd like to think I'm more comfortable in public (and ... what I don't. I know how to treasure (and defend) my silence, my solitude

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... haven't really locked in with the full PNR mindset. I did every pset for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking about lab and about how these past few weeks in Bhatia Lab have taught me ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a ... for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And ... wanted to crochet organs and then affix them to humans. I thought it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  way of putting it would be to say that I live in the stairwell between ... !) and I were hard at work in his suite lounge on Conner 4: Then Aaron ... do some work. When I got there, they were all hanging out in the floor

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  and blow her away in a hail of discs, but I thought any move would ... . The particular game I was in last night, "Krazny Octybr", has now run ... one I played in Saturday night). And each run has been drastically

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  these in." "But I'm not wearing them. Look, it's all grass in there, how ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It ... the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  I don't even know myself at all I thought I would be happy but now The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... a lot about (2) in particular. These past couple of days I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  English language... and I'm so dedicated to you, gentle reader, that I would ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel ... , $30 of which went toward buying me this awesome ticket specifically so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  , writing the lyrics, buying the green screen, and directing/starring in the ... comment sums up my expectations for the Secret Team and how I believe MIT ... Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  just knew deep down in my bones that it would be ours. Then the game ... retrospect, that last bit may define the MIT mindset in general—but I ... , I remember now. What item was it?" Player: "Item X. But it wasn't in

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study in a place like this. I'd be too distracted gawking around at the ...  campaign my friends and I did a few months ago and Jordyn was extremely impressed at how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  how we didn’t know what to do. I sit in the ESP office for a while ... hindsight, I understand that running this kind of program in-person would have ... flight that would happen in just 36 hours. Stress pack because I can’t fall

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In ... process, how was I going to put up with several dozen more? It tends to be ... virtually? How do we do recruitment now? And I've had to deal with these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• 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 / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  reading about topics in philosophy when I have downtime. I don't know if it ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I ... art. Unfortunately, I am itchy and covered in scary wheals all the time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in ... said, I thought a lot of this information is/was/would have been useful

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... the opening of the oven, the “door” that the pie would go in through ... ’s me laying in it because I’m 5’2” and the pie was 6.28 feet in diameter

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  since this would be my first time taking others out) In full, I got to ... schedule just the day before their flight! Anyways, I was sitting in a ... ! Immediately, it felt like I had never left. I read in an article that found some

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017