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• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  perhaps 5 classes and a UROP are too much... But heck, I've learned so much ... lifetime. Get ready to embrace it. Much love, A reluctantly, soon ... It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  of land a shade darker. Arkansas is gorgeous, but two years ago, I ... livestock is dwindling, replaced by the distasteful urbanity of a Southern ... somewhere about how “crying on public transport” is symptomatic of being in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  class. Someone did a presentation on how cringe culture is dead, or how ... impact of One Direction itself. High school is an awkward time. I was a ... , it also made me reflect on how much I tied my worth and identity to One

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  because the default is freshman year, and i thought it was a bug that the ... original didn't have. tldr: good to great features, UI/UX is a little ... when it was released, because this is a really good tool and the one i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... objectively made many of their lives much harder. this is maslow’s hierarchy of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... available to them.”  A corollary is that “…we may look just as favorably on

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  A guest entry by Adam The blogging machine that is Mollie is running ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... how he got set up, and he directed me to the department's UROP office. A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  performing groups we have, and how big of a performing arts scene there is on ... further ado, here is just a sampling of the events happening this fall on campus! (OK, I lied, here's a small amount of ado: an important caveat is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  "mental health days," this is a fairly common term (Google "take a mental ... pretty snazzy. Also, there is a very active AOL Instant Messenger chat room ... our E3 cards or is everything still being sorted? Does MIT sends out a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and ... (what a time) 30) Carved my first pumpkin (how have I gone so long ... do). But one thing is clear, it's been a blessed year. And the fact

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  what happens after your laptop dies at MIT. I feel like this is almost a ... assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  Cafe. For 75 cents you get as much brown rice as you can fit on a plate ... ? Everything at this food truck is pretty good, but beware of a similar truck ... in Kendall Square (a little more expensive and not much better than the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  simplest solution: write. Writing is fun. That’s why I do it so much ... We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to ... times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  have to use my body and voice to convey how I’m feeling (which is angry ... how awkward my body is. My stance is haphazard. What do I do with my ... it now is because VagMo is about so much more than the weekend in which

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... -front about it as well. Without further ado, here is a recipe to make yourself

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... entrance. The patter you heard has grown louder, and is noticeable as a rapid ... abutting the lobby. Standing there is a man with a ponytail and goatee. He

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  think i talk about how much i love my UROP in like, every blog post i make ... this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  will now have a pretty normal life expectancy. There is so much to do ... Kesem MIT is a one-week, free summer camp that takes place towards the end ... session is done. I was a counselor for Camp Kesem MIT during my freshman

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012