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• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... , check back in a few for some more a more impressive sketching of my life ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  sure you are ready to receive your decision before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... a really good blog entry in general. But then I woke up and was ... for it, and then I somehow got involved in a gang fight in a supermarket

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is ... revealed, where I tell you exactly what my team and I have been working on

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... before the departure time, 6pm. I make it on. It’s a smooth and ... potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  hikes in the redwoods -- and I developed a sense of what lifestyle an ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... work to a dumb American, I wouldn't trust 'em with anything too hard

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  in general, I think I am less of a mess than I used to be. I have a few ... hours of sleep a night, I can never go back to surviving on 4. Back in ... why I chose to live in Tetazoo, a living group where everyone is fairly

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... depicting the National Library in Sarajevo, before and during a siege that ... fact, he's filming somewhere in Boston. I didn't take a picture

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class ... .    Also, the assignments aren’t like anything I’ve experienced in a ... a communication-intensive in your major) so damn, I am COMMUNICATING

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... when written well (i.e. when written by actual employees and not HR), a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  bed I should just get up early and then take a nap in the afternoon ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... . I work best in 2-hour intervals, preferably there is a change of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... , we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get secured into a harness. First, grab the [9 pound] bar with your right hand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  would’ve, could’ve, should’ve a newly minted senior's freshman year regrets

  

  Hi blog, I'm a senior now! Or, at least in the sense that the ... didn't know that was a thing when I finally locked in and ended up paying ... option it was to study abroad for a semester! In retrospect, I would have

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 2, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... to count towards the degree. It's also flexible in a way that I think ... . More people should know more about Course 14, and for that I will do what

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  there holding a backpack and a bike helmet. I checked out the food table ... 't regret it!) She officially takes office in January. I'm excited to see what ... In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  about decisions, in the original post. I continue to write a lot about ... sink in. That is a problem I didn’t touch on enough in my original ... that I have in my head of what my life will look like when I’m perfect

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few ... things you should know before you watch the below video clip. First, the ... the interview, you should know that Lou Dobbs is a television

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  Langer before. Most of the time, I work directly with a post ... UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  this morning are resurfacing. In a little more than an hour, I should be ... of what majors I should choose, and I have tenuously decided upon a ... reason that I should be awake right now. In less than 3 hours, I am

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023