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• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced ... loves it as much I do, or that everyone should be a comp sci major, I have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  about what would make me happiest in a college experience, I made good ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  and accepted in a way I never really was before. Is everyone at MIT ... in a couple of weeks, and I still have moments when I walk past little ... struggle a lot. And, in fact, I ended up struggling way more than I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  ) minor. i’m a firm believer in taking classes and just letting the minors ... , mostly because I like being in a set schedule. I'm still planning on trying ... 14.04), and so i have 4.5 hours of classes in a 3 hour block of time

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... Hungers is what I like to call “the Iron Man Problem” of MIT graduates (a ... you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  smiling if he tried!). In true presidential fashion, I even got to take a ... Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... -four hours compulsively checking every email alert on my phone until I got the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a ... live in Simmons Hall, which I like to describe as living in a *very* nice ... plinths. Although I personally think the plinths should stay empty (Op-Ed in

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  note='i must note i was into the Owalas back in 2020, way before they ... slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  first, what I was looking for in a career, before I actually try things ... teaching, in graphics design, and it would address what I think is a huge ... some reason, the thought felt so novel. I had a choice of what I could do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  always felt like they kept me grounded, in a sense, so what if i overshoot ... experience has been positive. i guess i lucked out, in a sense, when i have a somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  should really get back into doing 100 situps before bed every day. I used ... us occupied during a regular MIT day. Or, it's just what Petey said ... ". Becoming a regular on Discord: I'm a bad gamer, so I've [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I ... a bit during the virtual week, which I was SUPER hyped for. in the ... job-wise, this has been an absolute rollercoaster of a year so far. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from where I'm staying on campus. Kim '11, who was also in Toy Design with me ... while Kim got all checked in I flashed my ID and got my hand stamped for

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  audience, and bowed to us, smiling. Before I continue, I should fill you in ... ." What did that mean? Pros: a sweet lanyard that said "PRESS", a seat in ... the grass for a dog sniff security check. I didn't consider my notebook

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  captions are embedded in the images, so I’ve included a text-only version at ... spends their day. My roommates and I wanted to do the same thing but in ... our best to snap a picture every hour of what we were doing at the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a ... solve puzzles in general. A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what ... [/caption] All of what I’ve previously written should actually be prefaced with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... to use!" which rapidly degraded into "But I need to set up a server somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... . Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough ... ; Yep, no need to do anything serious. I did a bunch of these things in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . Here goes: Zaira ponders: What type of laptop should I get for college ... cool OS, interface and capabilities. What should I do? Snively responded ... there were seven Apple laptops in the car. I switched to Mac right before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007