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• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  't ready to speak a certain way, you can't make them learn it. All you can do ... different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... heart palpitations (yes, this is a not-even-slightly-veiled reference to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well ... there was left to learn. I didn't have a good idea of what separates a ... need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... ... The MIT admissions blogs are, as a whole, supposed to convey a diverse

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif ... to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a ... and investments): Quite simply, I think that the Institute needs to do a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  ready to turn around and go back down to nice flat ground and a luxurious ... AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... my trip to Switzerland, and it was a whole year ago. The Highline

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  a deep breath, readied myself to start a slightly different Rush ... —and thus, I knew that I wasn’t ready to be in a frat.  And so, with a bit of ... experience, once I decided if I wanted to get a medium or a large. I’d only

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  lend themselves really nicely to outbursts of nerdiness. Exhibit A: the ... Oakland, where Ruth '07 works. While there, I had to snap a photo of the ... SAE team. (Once upon a time, I was on MIT's team.) Walking to the BART

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... indulgence. I read How to Talk to Anyone (a wonderful, wonderful book) when I ... revelatory enough to buy another by the same author (Susan Jeffers) titled

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  heaven and earth behind the scenes to forge a meaningful connection between ... local music and perform in a concert! Day 1 Fast forward to about three ... the Amazon rainforest. What a way to start my spring break! Immediately

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  almost everything moved and decided to call it a day. All that's left is ... computers for a while (and listening to Blast! at a volume that probably have ... , I got a text from Jordan inviting me to an EMT barbecue over at East

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar ... a reasonable fraction of the 700+ events to attend? I was definitely ... be helpful to post a Mini-Guide to CPW for your final hours of prep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  ready to let go of yet, and simply telling myself a desire is dumb isn ... which i’ve listened to a lot over the past few weeks. i’m getting into ... that any given relationship is likely to end painfully?” rather than a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  supply) wanted to buy a cake and couldn't resist the urge to have the ... embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... a call to tech support, I'm about to tell you. When I show up at IS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to ... fuzzy little pods, but it only took them a couple of days to fully emerge

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  a spot on the wait list. Not all of those students will choose to ... ’ll email you to let you know. Next, be sure to enroll in a college ... more than a page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid-to

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to ... , 2014. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You ... to a second round of waitlist admissions. All of this is a standard

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  it you'll realize you were never ready at all. Perhaps there's a lesson in that. Thankfully, you do have a wonderful resource available to you ... and staff who have agreed to take in a group of wide-eyed new cadets

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  explore this new grocery store, so here I am, a week or so later, ready to ... morning, over two years after I had last eyes on LaVerde's, to see a ... collecting items for a Concord Market feast. There were so many things to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025