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  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  -30. There was a club for everyone, and if there wasn't you could start it - we ... to study 10 hours a night, and don't think you can take any more ... /no record is incredibly helpful. I know a lot of you are super freakin

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  since you can declare yourself "undesignated." I've done a lot of thinking ... 's pretty awesome that during your freshman year, you can have a world ... seminar, you can maintain weekly contact with your advisor in a classroom

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... Cambridge. You may be wondering where this is going. Bad Ideas? Green ... . Personally, I find this a lot more exciting than Mystery Hunt. I mean, there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  tourist-y trip was to Target to buy a swimsuit. No regrets there: turns out ... email said, "DeAnne Smith is a queer comedian. If you haven’t heard of ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  , right before a Robotics session, my mentor said "so, Anna, I know that you ... explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran ... started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  . The fact is: there are a lot of really cool things you can study here. I ... , you can declare "undeclared", but most people do make at least a ... ), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  role.” They noted that sometimes a high school leadership opportunity can be more of a title than anything else, and I can definitely relate to this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  paying job you can find because it's there. This is where the "work hard ... making sense, even if you didn't see it that way going in.   There's a ... 's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  's no social pressure to talk in the UK. You can just vibe with the group ... hot nuts they sold. You could get a cup full of “spicy” crunchy peanuts ... there was always someone new at the fire jams. I brought a pair of poi

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  . There are some things about how you complete the application that can ... clearly labeled. While there is a specific rationale for every question that ... there is something optional that you would prefer not to respond to, feel

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  , right?! Of course, there is A LOT more, but for the sake of space, I won ... that you can get to the victim faster, but also mean you need to have A ... that you must do a summer program, all the same. The key is to do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  behavior and the brain? 10-C is a flexible enough that you can juggle it and ... , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... next four years at MIT. This is a safe place where everyone has a story

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  's a tube that goes through the middle of you, just like there is for ... replicate - sure, maybe there was that one time where i worked on a cool ... where it comes from. it is a confidence that i could really use right now

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... 'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I ... my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  . You can't get all the information you need from a video -- you can get ... with people you don't like in a shiny new one. You can use amenities to ... ridiculous; there's no "best" dorm, just one (or a few) that are best for you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  bed makes you feel cozier than you've ever felt before. Love is when a ... down, hoping that my life will unfold like a romantic drama where a ... just because I’ve taken a linguistics class and so now my brain is always

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  and studios where you can screen foreign films to hone your language ... the same room as last term's writing class, and is held in a similar ... 's course is taught by Cathy Culot, a native French speaker from Brussels. The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in ... MIT. This is also the answer to your second question, how can you find out if ... that it would be a place where my interests in politics and government

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  is that a big part of adulthood is figuring it out as you go. you ... ? each life has its ups and downs. all you can do is live the one you have ... life is about the day to day, the work you do each day to build towards a

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... is, you can climb it too. )

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024