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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa ... slightly uncomfortable again, in a new place where I didn’t know that many ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening to sad music, rolling the guilt i felt around and around in my head

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... Every Student Should Know," where reps from a consulting company in DC

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  having posted anything substantial in something like seven months. I kept ... and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work ... to as I prepared said e-mails. And, guess where those were? Yes, so, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  amazing mother repeated this to me almost every night as she tucked me in. I ... what, Mom?” I asked. “That the sky is the limit. That you can do anything ... night out in Tallinn, Estonia (where Hardi founded the company, and where

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... this campaign, please e-mail me so that I can give you further details ... . In Round 1, people came up with 7,783 ideas. Only 87 (about 1%) made it

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Shuttle/SafeRide Z Center -- the only place in the winter where I've consistently found ... coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion ... the house more Black Ink in Beacon Hill -- where we found greeting card

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  organizations where I fit in and can talk about my interests with like ... until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  our constraints. my robot was juuuust under 16 in long."][/annotation] I ... finish and turn in my 2.007 notebook by '5:00'... I got back to Next around ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... revelation: I pictured myself, 30 years old and alone in a dingy apartment ... hand, life is good. Except for the part where I need to start three

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  enough, I had a big problem on my Dell where the installer crashed every ... I was told. You see, because, data, can be backed up, but 3 years ... couldn't sever these ties that bind. So in the end, life went on. I lived

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  , but sometimes i don’t even know where my time goes. i feel like ... AP Computer Science, i didn’t do any coding in high school ... dancing alone in my room in 30-second spurts whenever i wanted, but now i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and thinking like, "man, this is amazing, I can feel myself getting smarter by ... for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  crisis. "I don't have a choice in this; I can't seriously pursue a career ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never written these before. I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve done in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... rolled around, I didn't tell anyone. In fact, I was in a hotel room ... can only accept so many students in December. The Admissions Office

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... college admissions season can be a particularly anxious time for students. I ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan!"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  actually been since I swam. This pool wasn’t like the neighborhood pool where ... further until I was eventually in the deep end. When I jumped in, I remember ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021