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• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today, we have the privilege of dissecting the first term of my freshman year ... with him on the phone. All of this stuff was not great for my academic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William ... -selecting subset of the total professor population. I would never have expected a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... makes. Unlike some parts of the country and the world, here in New ... the day. Toward the end of graduate school, I learned that early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards the end of the panel, I introduced myself and asked them what they felt ... startups would have to overcome. Some of the things I learned: Fintech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... readers of the MIT blogosphere and all admitted MIT Quest Scholars, My name ... Network. The Quest Scholars Network is a group of all MIT Quest Scholars

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and takes any shift in the winds of conversation in stride. Funnily enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  featuring stories that capture and communicate the richness and diversity of the MIT experience. Subject matter will range from the arts, research ... , sports, and the occasional hack." I hosted Episode 4, check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  'm trying to put off getting to the point of this entry? Anyway, some time ... Boston, which was one of the most life-changing experiences I've ever been ... and as such I was stuck next to a man with the least accurate sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically ... distraction, right? TVtropes One of the most addicting and hilarious sites I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... mountains was a fantastic reminder of what life can be like outside the MIT ... packed full of sleeping bags, tents, and food. We were headed about 2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  the last exam was (just kidding, it's not always bad...just...a lot of ... room in the middle, there are always lots of people in our room. In the ... want to live on, the type of room you want to live in, and who you want

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  see the numbers on Wednesday night, when Elliott got voted off? Each of the three top contestants received 33.xx% of the votes - statistically ... 'm wrong: American Idol has a finite number of phone lines. The phone lines

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and ... , straight up, but now I'm a routine of doing it every night with the others. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  from a significant portion of the group once renovation comes around, i ... consolidate the fragments of ideas i’ve considered in this past hour? can i exercise my creativity in the way i want to instead of throwing a stream-of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... sent me. (It was something short, along the lines of "Congratulations ... applied early to MIT. We of course wanted to know if the other had gotten

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first ... ="🤷"]something?[/annotation] A month passed and I still hadn’t thought of the idea but, as it

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn ... a clumsy giraffe among the rest of the herd. Every ounce of self ... circles with ease because that's the kind of person I wanted to be. But now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country ... know I'm not the only Jerseyan to say this: Newark is one of the worst

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... point during the pandemic i was introduced to stoicism. one of its main ... own well-being. this is one of the reasons i was initially drawn to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... that reminds you of home. Your dorm is your new home for the next eight ... of the I-9 form lists all of the acceptable documents. So bring it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014