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• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer ... making the final cut. This is not how my college applications went. I was completely myself without any pretense of normality, and I was sure that would

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  where I was applying, and then I didn't get in, everyone would make fun of ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... sucked. After each round of decisions came out, I hated hearing my name in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  Broadcasting System''), but things changed in the late 1970s: Ted Turner, who intended to distribute his TV station in Atlanta (then called WTCG) over ... an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  's something that my family members would poke fun at and point out and I think ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I found a metric that determined how acceptably fit I was and stuck with it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a ... my sophomore year, pushed me in a different way. Any time I would go to ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  gondola ride. I would recommend to anybody going to Venice in the near ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown ... every afternoon. Maybe they spray tourist pheremones too. I would. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  decreased in a geometric series. It is predicted that Paul would have finished ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that ... of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  AM, would be a horrifying thought. But on this particular day, I feel ... minutes before lifting, I sit in a corner and nibble on a breakfast cracker ... robot as thanks" in return for 15 minutes of my day, and because I am a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  something about how it would affect us in the form of increased crime and ... head around how my classmates and i can make so much money sitting in ... i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to ... , psets, eat, sleep, repeat. i fill the hours in between with mindless

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  didn't really know how I would feel about it. Turns out, I found my ... ). This would give me a deeper understanding of the techniques I use, in ... ," and it's really flexible. In 18C, I would take a variety of course 18

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we ... absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  's right there in my pset, how cool is that?? I just know my friends thought I had ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... of how much we love what we do. But on some level I don't think it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  more and more about how the world around me functions. I would always ... I went to that other school, I would end up in academia forever. If I ... be an imperfect fit. I was more interested in how the models being used

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  answer blog that I mentioned. People would come in and they would ask ... ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... would enroll, percentage-wise), but generally it ranges. I'm sure they ... . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006