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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  pieces up while the icing dried, but nothing was working for me. I was ... Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  'll excuse myself for having some extra level of fondness for the 2017s. i don ... . thanks for your patience and your love. thanks for all the things you ... , all the stupid memes you made -- and thanks for talking about it, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  most well-known around campus for being the go-to-woman for questions ... method #2, personally, but it varies. I also apologize for the fact that ... I'm putting it aside for now until I can properly research some of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  looking for some introspection and who found it via MBTI. Taking the test ... disregarding its origins and looking at the test itself, Myers-Briggs is terrible ... questionnaire. Most people are in the middle of the bell curve for most “traits

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  miss spontaneous trips to diners at 3am. I miss feeling excited for the ... the skin. But for now I work, going to and fro and to and fro. ... the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... contents. There was a space on the envelope for me to write an address. I ... just felt important for me to address it to YOU. . . . The thing I love

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... into MIT, but I also received rejections. Different schools look for ... Exam week starts, and before I know it I’ll be graduating. Where has the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  back home. It was then that I really looked at my phone for the first ... . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... lab. GEL stands for the Gordon Engineering Leadership program, and it is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  ??"]month[/annotation] since I’ve arrived at the institute. It’s entirely on me for ... ’m done with the presentation, so I let myself sleep for another half hour ... new. I take the bus for about twenty minutes, then get off where the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  , yassified"[/caption] For our final project, we had the freedom to draw ... This summer, I took an art class through the Student Art Association at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  Looking back, 2020 was a very chill year for me. Ridiculously so, if I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... nearly enough sleep. I could go into the reasons for this – wanting to do

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... cortex of mice. (I wrote a review! And drew the pictures for it!) I ... lissencephaly (smooth brain), then finding the gene responsible for causing the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  that was touched by my incessant need for a challenge. From the ... placed into boxes destined for countries all around the world. We did this ... The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some <

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  , you already have many of the qualities we look for in MIT students ... a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of ... Well, are you rural? You might have heard about the STARS College

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  preference as examples of the kind of commitments she was looking forward to ... . Today, [annotation note="If you were on campus for an information session ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  vacation day. I'm always one to shoot for the underdog, the least privileged ... up via Bluetooth to my GPS. I had to get out of bed and look at the ... , neighborly base for my summer lodging. Well, it looks like I've been

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  people try to look so ~serious~ as they make their way down the ... guilty. The Stata Center continues to still look so weird, like a fantastic piece of art that changes every time you look at it. I wonder about the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... frequency. We get paid for each post we write, according to the number of ... , but it's definitely more for people who write longer posts. The check

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last ... . Not even looking at my empty dorm room with the awful splatter paint job ... reflect on whether MIT was the right fit for me, and why. And maybe it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... for. A group of six of us worked for most of the evening and didn’t call ... look around at the group of people who were still working on this after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016