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  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  being the actor in a movie you don’t know the plot of. I was pretty ... role was looking for items I wanted, which were in packets taped to the ... happened, but it was surprisingly fun, and I’d love to do more in the future

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... write about how still, I think all the time about that heartbreaking escalating unpredictable horrible move-out week in March, and how even just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... friends who would totally enjoy science bowl. I rounded up a handful of my ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of ... Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links ... another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  alarm had gone off, I'm not sure I would have responded to it.) I ... sleeping bag into the little bag I had carried it in. Each precious second it ... Uber would be arriving there and that I was on my way. Ask your host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  9:00 AM! How on earth will I stay awake in class?!?! I have an idea.... ... have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should ... mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Erdos I would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  about the above scholarship. I would just like to ask your views on how ... opportunity. I'd imagine that KVPY students would be very competitive in the ... at a hospital). How do I report this in my application?" For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  (my roommate would arrive in about a week). I gave up when I got onto ... boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... how much energy I wasted today by walking on non-carpeted surfaces. Next ... gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... other direction (as in, now that I’m an alumna), it’s time for me to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my ... ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  available. I waited in line for 20 minutes. Normally, irritation would itch ... year, I've felt a decided shift in the air. I've mentioned it before ... and truthful (although in writing it comes across as sarcastic). I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  and writing in the middle of it all, that I realize how much I love ... I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming ... where I’m from, all I’m allowed to say is “I used to live in Simmons

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  "]17.307[/annotation]this year. I'm leaning towards a concentration in ... difficult considering I'm not entirely set on what I'd like to concentrate in. With all that in mind, let's get started! I start planning my semester

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or ... that has come before you. I'm wondering how your affinity for the web ... from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  see how I didn't need to squeeze everything in as soon as possible. You ... is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I ... of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new ... , something i never thought i would do in week one. i still ask steven at least ... seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  would have been helpful, in college, to have known that I was autistic ... role in forming me into what I would be as an adult. Forged and formed ... Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  disappointed. how did i lose motivation so quickly?? the surge of excitement that ... i would finally seize these couple of months to explore new interests ... -person. but the simple fact that i'm in my room and not in a classroom

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... , I started going to the barber in the basement of the MIT student

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018