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  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a ... the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - and most of all, how to ... . I wish there was more that we could do. But there is also the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  that window shade! I don't know why a printer cable is dangling from ... 're familiar, thanks to a previous entry. Along the way, I thought I'd show you a ... dome. Retreating to shelter, I noticed that the closed door to 8

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  have to realize that "something that I did failed" is not the same as "I ... important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  ’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things ... enormous floating shelves and a bench nailed to the windowsill, just wide ... to touch up the paint if I stay, and build a ladder for the loft. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  credit to Mitra Many of you have seen that the MyMIT portal is down. No ... stereotype was one of the things that turned me off to CMU. It wasn't until a ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  looks like (don't panic - take it from a reliable source that there is a ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my ... still balked at the size and the fact that I had to share the space with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is ... . None of this is to say that I don’t adore beauty the same way anybody ... might be considered beautiful. And that isn’t to say truth is inherently

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  . There is a very real and powerful emotional entanglement that comes with ... realization, which is easy to say but difficult to really believe: that a single ... that taught 3D printing skills and design work, unrelated to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of ... to say that FIRST is a prerequisite for admission, or that it gives you ... to develop in them the collaborative spirit that will make them a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  ://open.spotify.com/playlist/34w1NkAVcqH4pn9xpuuGDp?si=6ca6d77b70a546b2 Is there a song that helps ... Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  the coming days. In the meantime, there are a few things we wanted to ... the good that Marilee has brought to our office and to our field, and we hope that others around the country will do the same. Second, many are

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  hands to be taken across the country. There’s a lot of other flights that ... might be worth it to google a map of DTW and see which way is the fastest to get there Okay well i googled and like Is it gonna be a run instead

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  classes? Aren’t you guys a technical school?” The answer to this is a ... won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education ... ’s not about finding the right answer to a problem. My only job is to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  to work in (most divisions of) a big bank is that I’m too soft and lazy ... quickly, and there’s not much time to get to know someone beyond the labels ... really a place where people go to make friends, though, which is a shame--the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  return. i see someone stressed, upset, and feel the urge to comfort them ... don’t want to intrude on the space they need. so i stay silent. and ... they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I ... there who are just like you, going through the same anxiety, the same excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  's my opinion that if a student is struggling in a class and is putting ... is doing its job. If you get to a class and find yourself extremely ... indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the ... little bus sick and a cleaning is in order. Then there’s “deadheading ... you learn to put up with when you're a country mouse coming to the city

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  a ton of circuits, hook them up to the lab computers and have them do ... although I wanted to. I explained that I really loved writing, and that a ... , assuring me that she would save me a spot next semester. And she did! The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  - religious school instructor. There is never a quiet moment in his life, and ... wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of ... an honor to have been a part of the initial crew, and what a great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025