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• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... Ave from MIT. If you don't want to spend money, there's a new student

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

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  Desmond. Enter the arcade. Walk to the very end. Do a couple of ... closest to you, with the brown hair. That's Davie. Davie is a junior from ... ahead and challenge him to a game of bananagrams. Afterwards, ask him why

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  , trying to remember experiences from CPW. There was a lot of information ... . Additionally, it could be intriguing to see how one student’s view on a living ... This guest post on LGBT life at MIT comes to us from Cory Hernandez

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... . but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of an upswing. i've met kids who are such nerds that were so happy to be a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and tweet at least five times a day to project some kind of image. I ... during a stressful semester. We’re all figuring out how to project a ... important when it comes to social media. The second phase of the class is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... think it's important to recognize this. There are some truly beautiful ... Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  myself to find my way on my own. Thankfully, though, there were a few signs ... backtracked a bit until I found a detour to the road and walked along the street ... stressful. The next morning, I felt adventurous and decided to explore a snow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  Books - we took a moment while on the road to marvel at the realization that ... I came to college, after being a dedicated PC user for probably about ... PC are not available for Macs, it's usually not hard to find a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  dedicate my life to something so important when i’m in a place where i can ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a ... !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it ... tackled. I think it’s a nice book to read and relax while sitting by the ... English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  that a lot of the events that felt "important" to me often were things to ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... to condense three years worth of research into a 10-12 minute talk ... recommendation that you don't want to do a little presentation? I said sure. And

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... 't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  just means i have to prioritize earlier) I do keep a Post-It pad with me on my desk and in my backpack. When I have to remember really important ... beautiful now). There's a certain serenity and peace about grasping on to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... a hacker might need to prototype and develop their ideas: Raspberry Pi ... thought that this would be a perfect opportunity to learn more about making

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  part came out awhile ago, and this second part got very delayed due to a ... translates to "Market of Charms," a bustling flea market. It was an outdoor ... that I met a woman that I still think about to this day. Llibreria del

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look ... -level and also not important past analogy purposes"]I also want to talk about ... there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute-to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025