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• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot ... much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to ... tried to kick a small target on someone who’s running away from me. By the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , [annotation note="Which may have the qualifications to be a pandemic of its own ... lot about what I want to do at MIT. Originally, I wanted to have a ... entail? A timer. For example, a wash cycle generally takes 36 minutes to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... ; we're moving from one world to a new, very different one. My routine is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity ... Emerge the old-fashioned way: one trip to Sri Lanka at a time, one lecture ... from Victoria’s Secret to Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan group that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  ." I'm awkwardly posed next to them, hovering over them by a couple ... ? Prove what? Or maybe I saw it as a chance to live out my dreams of feeling like the popular kid and go to a party and shed away all that high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having ... entries to come involving my research and other jobs, but until then here's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  even learned to sow at the Metropolis Makerspace and made a reversible ... a wooden pull toy. I am learning how to be a leader through dorm ... degree to be (6-2? 6-1? 2A-6? 6-3?). To be transparent, this approach has

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major ... Linguistics Group, a group that uses large-scale corpus studies to discover ... languages all around the world. How many? Enough to populate a map like this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... species management to ecosystem management. It just requires a big chunk of ... -life interviews, just to name a few. At the end, the consolidation of research takes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big ... left my computer job and moved to rain city with a friend from computer ... ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school ... of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every ... Spanish, I want to write a novel, I want to get a PhD in media studies, I ... make the necessary series of choices to lead me down a path that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... a single applicant's numbers, to tell you the truth, and I'd be hard-pressed to find a single admissions officer who could. Because you are not

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... , and second by the distance. We worked ourselves into a frenzy trying to ... car-crash victim, there always seems to be a lower layer to which life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... decent shape, my whole family decided to visit. We had a great time. My ... . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic ... order. Time to make lunch! Salad + fruit + almonds + a roll orrr PB ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A: Part 2 where I FINALLY answer the rest of your questions :'D

  

  Thanks to everyone who left questions in my Q&A! I haven't gotten ... 're that ambitious. Work on a project that you've always wanted to work on ... while you're a student, and a class that you planned to take in sophomore

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022