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  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of ... 32-141, so maybe this is a fitting end. Last shower in shallow Walcott ... shower for me. Plus, there's a really nice mural that I always got to stare

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  Poetry Workshop class this semester, where each week you come in with a ... need to start with some direction of where you're going, whether it be a problem, a project, or something else, I think the difference is that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  ” behind it (tl;dr: there is none) and was inspired to take and research a ... . There is a company that owns and monetizes this test and makes $20 million ... , then what can you use to self-evaluate, if anything? After a lot more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  've had both those feelings. I know MIT is home, a place where I belong ... These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... my first MIT pset. As you can imagine, it's been hard to devote my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  you're here! There's way too much stuff to do, and it's not a true MIT ... there. It was my home. And before moving into my temp dorm as a freshman ... imagined that that it would be the place for me. If you're a prefrosh and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  -dimensional world results in a two-dimensional image of what can be seen from where ... [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I ... -dimensional worm actually gives you in a philosophical sense. And while there are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where ... . Reuse is a mailing list for giving things away. People email out ... have also seen some much stranger things in there.) There are a few

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  wisdom I can't make up for myself. Readers, what do you think? Is self ... not helped you? If self-help books don't actually help, is it a waste of ... self-help genre. There is a stigma around the genre: like many things

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  . "Until then, the best thing you can do for yourself is to take a walk ... power of a good walk. Step 3: Solder This is the step where you physically ... and all of their connections to each other. This is where you decide

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  [by Joan Horvath '81] "What do you DO all day?" There's a certain ... 'll learn a lot if you to come to MIT. But the greatest thing you'll learn is ... . When I started consulting, though, I discovered that there was a little

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... , I overlook it. There are many days where I spend my minutes like poker ... . I’m considering staying for a master’s degree. To decide is to walk

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  a pleasant experience. You all smile about this whole firehose analogy, thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  does not encourage this, much--you can't put "I think about my feelings a ... . The withdrawal/readmission process is fairly straightforward; you meet with a dean at S3 (they are wonderfully nice people. they will give you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  deal with the glass getting cold?” Rest assured, there is a solution that ... decided to make a snowman. This is the end result: I know what you ... before, it is a piece of weight that you put on paper. Or other stuff. They

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  there anyway I can make a random donation of like $4.17 to the financial ... , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... the ex about ME. I am truly sorry to all of you out there who will never

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot ... science has progressed to the point where we can predict solar eclipses and ISS transits to the second, there's actually quite a bit of uncertainty

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to ... matter what their rank is in comparison to yours. You have a lot to say

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  tell this story so that you can see just how far I spiral. The truth is ... there was in Interphase, where I can't just go somewhere to escape the ... It’s difficult to not feel like MIT is a bubble, keeping you distant

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  person for three years. There is a difference between leaving something ... . There were a few giant red flags on the first day. I won't go into all of ... anymore. Sunk cost fallacy is a fallacy, after all. The first week of school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022