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• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  the people I’ve met on hall, learning how to skate down in the tunnels ... . They were giving out free EC lighters, too. I got one in pink, with EAST ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  Things I would highly recommend bringing, in no particular order: 1. Cell ... , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... . Getting a bicycle is not absolutely necessary, but I would recommend it if

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... much. No matter how I procrastinated or fooled around on Friday, I wake ... our weekly house clean-up from 11 to 12. After that, I settle in to work

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  everything. I couldn't stay in 2East. I need to do what's best for me. It's a ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... change nonetheless. I am left thinking about how much has truly changed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  . I like their windows, and how their tenets leave them open. I like the ... covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... exactly how they smelled back home. I'd never seen a woman smoke a Marlboro

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... Jean Grey vaporized him in X3. That was awesome. Also, I like how at the ... how I started this entry three days ago but sometime betwee now and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  I would have been in Random Hall, on BMF, at my desk with the door ... me an excellent view of anyone coming or going. In January 2015 I would ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... absolutely no free time whatsoever. I vaguely learned how to manage my time so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  how to be human again, but in the meantime, I will try my best.   ... meetings a week and DPhiE the same and I would love time to just sit and do ... schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  's programs in those areas and would MIT not be the right place for me if I ... visited." As an international, I don't know how much you follow American ... @MIT website. During CPW, I had the opportunity to check out the brand new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  your essay would make the difference in a decision. I wouldn't worry ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... . even if u watch translated into english ones, i would recommend u try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  comfortable making my own websites because I didn't think I knew how to make ... and how it really defined their MIT academic experience. I would love ... the semester at around 5 or 6 and in those next two weeks or so I drop

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  'm excited that I'll be sharing other people's experiences in the future with ... Programming Competition, and the website that gets the most Facebook likes in ... from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm. Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  sometimes or know how to fold their clothes in a more efficient way. I ... I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of ... to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... , and say: "Hey Flourish! I'm Chris. I work over in admissions. A decade ago we worked on FictionAlley together. I was in the group that fled Fan

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could, how it would feel to be ... Shuli J. '22 (2018): I knew I would be nervous when the time came, because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019