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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way ... living on the third floor of the [annotation note="East Campus is a dorm

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college, in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... because you enjoy sharing a human connection, that you want to give as much

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  enter a university, much less a Masters program? No worries! Now you can ... citizens? You can do that online even if you’re six years old. How is ... Professor Eileen Scanlon from The Open University, told us how in another

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  + looks exactly like an A-, which in turn looks like an A. That's great if you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... -inscrutable concepts racked my brains to no end, had a few guest appearances in the 8

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  along too much to figure out how to do calculus, which is a real problem ... musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  the grip Spotify Wrapped has on society is truly astounding. time to ... listening to Spotify constantly. this is not true because i am at the lower ... surprised i was first because i listen to a lot of Discover Weekly...  

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  conducted on warm, calm, rain-free days. The problem is that it's March in New ... in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I ... dream early, a summer internship in Corporate America. I applied through

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  in the fall. My point is, your first semester is pretty much the ... classes and your tests and your p-sets, how much time everything is going to ... , feel free to ask in the comments (anonymously is fine) and I'll update

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  !). Your host will know how much time to allot for you to check in and meet ... people. That, in general, is a good strategy. Follow the cool people and ... + Events. There is now a whole guest blog post about it! Learn how to have a

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

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  capable as a human being - GPA is in absolutely no way everything and it ... . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities ... minor in this. I love writing - maybe it could be more than a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century ... papers on pretty much whatever I'm interested in--my first paper was a five ... anime episode--and there is a challenge to managing that time in the best

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  advising group, a feature of RBA-based dorms like Next House. In our class of ... made this, so the magenta is also a carbon.But I don't need that name to ... Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  spent in lecture. I will admit that this is a relatively low number ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in ... without too much damage freshman year because, in a small role as a ... things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as ... show it to you, since the Next Big Mailing has officially been shipped ... Introduction to the Institute and serves a first introduction (or second, after

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  ."  Luckily, there is a much lesser known law which states that "every bad thing that ... version of physics or math you take.  All that matters is how much you want ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... good pizza. pizza has a low ceiling imo in terms of flavour so this is ... FLAVORFUL. silky kitchen is sulking in the kitchen right now. also a great

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014