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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I ... international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  KNOW nothing I say will change that. But trust me, in four years, you ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  built my home; what I need is a snapshot of yours. As I find my way from ... of familiar and friendly faces, some of which I haven’t seen in a while ... while to realize (in part because I’m not sure I knew what college was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer, lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder ... this claim: I should not design a small language, and I should not design

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . obviously i can’t prove this is what happened in each scenario, but i believe ... damaging ways trust, i’ve decided, is really about power. as in, i can ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the ... ? Maybe I should watch an inspirational movie. A documentary. Something in ... Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , asked what race I was, and showed me a skinned bull hanging by its feet in ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... down. I’d watched a number of [annotation note="pretty much what it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... Before I Graduate. I had lunch at Subway. I saw a cat meow at me, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015 ... bandwidth to pay attention to them now. a few days after i turned in my thesis ... making edits a half-hour before you submitted it. you should have spent

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... relatives and family friends and even people I don’t know, in terms of checks

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  really a preview of what MIT will be like? I don’t think most pre ... , and happily changed the subject—“You should go on a lab tour where I ... friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to

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

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab ... diminutive of parka, as in ‘I-need-a-parka’ weather), though due to severe jet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ...  Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed

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

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... immediately called my mom who was in Vietnam, even though it was 3a.m, because I ... most burning question I have in my mind is as an individual, what can I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track ... 't process. As I said before, confusion comes in different flavors. The ... my friends outside of class. I should have searched for a healthier

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  1997, in particular, provide a good picture of what its Campus Preview ... year in next week's Tech issue, which I also think is a really good read ... residences played a role in this. As I've discussed in the section First

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  first I wasn't quite sure what to do with my newfound Free Time, a ... appreciate my time at a new school, in a new country. I wanted to appreciate ... whenever I wanted to, read a book, go hiking in the Alps, get to know an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018