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• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  when we were buying groceries from Wholesome Fresh, and I'm kind of in ... , though. there's a channel in the 2024 discord where people can send ... I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  sit in an empty Zoom room for thirty minutes; during this time, I sent several emails, bumping the founders ("Hey! I'm in the Zoom." "Hey! Let me ... the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are so many I can't possibly do them all, in a day or a week or even this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  can only be content in the woods for so long. I want to contribute. Not ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  alright for the psets. Where would I be?" "Well... I'd say you'd be in the ... my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  the pain. Wonderful. In a few minutes, I can barely move both my arms ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Lammermoor. Now, I can appreciate opera and everything--Lucie's mad scene in ... with my application, so here's what I sent in: They can't refuse to ... Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more ... had to study my name for a while, since there's no way I can re

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  where I stayed for three days and two nights in a hostel. While seafood in ... Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  with Raymond showed me that I can be in these really intense, serious ... ways in which I can learn how to use it for good, rather than just being ... 've resulted in a path where I held on to that anger and that hurt and hurt other

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  "world's smallest" Trader Joe's across the river in Boston (which I would ... time I had a half-dozen, I felt like I just had to blog them (in addition ... spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from ... how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of failing. I had done ok in the semester, failing or barely passing most tests ... problems on the test. I had to step it up and give it my all in order to pass

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re ... correctly 100 times in a row then my friend can be pretty confident the balls ... color of each ball in the process i want to prove to my friend that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat ... home. Although money can help place you in experiences that will enrich

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... laptop, it lets me do what I'm doing now (type a blog entry in the floor

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... ‘where did you come from, where did you go’ in Urdu. actually listened in on 6.006 I dropped 6.006 to Listener mid semester but continued

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... . MIT can offer you everything in terms of academics. I could not ask for ... either food, bugs in my code that I can’t find, or the latest book I am

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... buy a year later as post-exam consolation presents. I got a campus tour ... climbed things. I participated in a protest. I met amazing people. I rocked

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012