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• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about ... had to refer a lot to the private tumblr blog I kept where I vented

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and ... interviewees explained how they came to a stronger understanding of their ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to ... , running initial experiments to see which one had potential to become a paper

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was set opposite a skull, which I made while learning how to use chisels

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one, I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... a large folder of drafts, so I had to publish the most polished piece ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... tremendously at MIT kept a regular 10 PM to 7 AM sleeping schedule all four years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... high school was expected to apply somewhere. I talked with my dad a ... essays, applied, was accepted by a few, and went to one. No bells, no

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... was applying to colleges - when I was a good deal more lazy than I am

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and ... conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we ... a "now or never" deal: my parents had wanted to make this trip after

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023