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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  , where you have to find the challenges yourself. It starts off with this ... : patronus", and you need to find and beat a certain number of these to do the ... would make for a cute ship, and we, as players, thought it'd be fun to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor ... excruciating. I miss talking to my colleagues, and I’m a notorious waffler, often

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

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

  

  a place where it happened and the place I wanted to be (and ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... to track, and a racing car seat and harness attach rider to car

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... . Another seemingly spontaneous addition to our lab’s gadget arsenal was a 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

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

  

  last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a ... opportunity to gain a different perspective and meet awesome people. So over the ... . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the

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

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  ’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place ... . You scramble to find a pencil. You can no longer remember the answer ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  was a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Dumbledore: Fancy ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  friend groups is to pass around a spreadsheet where everyone fills out what ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my orgo TA's office. I don't regret it. I needed to find those limits, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  new ones. I mean, I have a job. A job where I'm paying to work for them ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  where to apply Tips on the application components Why I chose MIT ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... *voluntary* thing that is totally unnecessary to living a happy, fulfilling

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  had to refer a lot to the private tumblr blog I kept where I vented ... assignment. There was a point where I really didn’t know how to fix what was ... laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and ... interviewees explained how they came to a stronger understanding of their ... person’s identity that they hadn’t expected to find; for others, however

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

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... where it can seem easy to become part of a crowd. My background has also ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... to work a random barista job that realistically will not contribute to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... non-actor-non-dancer-non-runner like me i just find a bit of solace ... doritos—but make peace with myself if there is a week or month where i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018