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  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... come true. “You have no right to be shy, when you have a gift to give ... ’t even fully understand. “You have no right to be shy, when you have a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  to grad school or possibly working if I find a cool company who wants ... I've had to a 'Real Job' where I have an ID card and my own cubicle ... weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  , looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the ... and here was a project by student Guillermo Bernal where he nonchalantly ... even a wearable to create an "immersive reading experience". The wearable

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  . This included a ride on the Silver Line to Fish Pier, where we had dinner ... where a couple of chocolate scavengers were showing up late to the party ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience ... , some of us are planning a trip to Inner Mongolia). And no constant bubble

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  find this one particular particle (hehe that's fun to say) that can help ... The Unified Theory, a.k.a Physics. That's right, it seeks to finish ... bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I ... particularly grabbing. We then began a Q&A session, and that was where the real ... only to find that I want to be an English teacher?” Though that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... there. Luckily, I had my trusty flashlight, which allowed us to see where

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  in to find a bag one of them had left. I was in the middle of the ... asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece ... come up with the right details to describe a character, small things that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... car for hours at a time on busy city streets, where dings and scratches ... mexican place close to Germantown Academy (where the meeting was taking

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  about it. This itself was like finding yourself at a meadow, and having to ... this have emphasized to me that when we create a place where ... gravity, a first principle to found my life upon. I’m not sure when it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  for short. OMSI had a LEGO x Jurassic Park exhibition, where we got to ... many calls that I ended up making a spreadsheet to rank all the hold ... speak to a human.  [caption id="attachment_118904" align

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... surprised to find that most of that weird feeling lasted about 12 hours or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  , what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic ... assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a ... , we read and discussed a new webcomic or graphic novel to see all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  of your dorm -- it's not so hard to find the way out from here Park ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet, seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a

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

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  need to find a job or something productive to do over the summer. Senior ... attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you want to spend all the time you can indoors where it's warm. This makes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow-up to a course I took last term called 4.S10 – Delhi and Jaisalmer: An

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  her free time, she blogs at FoodParsed, where she shares easy-to ... . Tuesdays used to be a glorious time. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Gates lobby ... ) If you’re willing to make the trek, you can buy produce for a huge

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  undergraduate hackathon. a hackathon is where people get 24 hours to build a ... can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... anthropology class teacher asked us to say our name and a small story related to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... !") and I proceeded to walk up two and a half flights of stairs, thinking (I ... where this guy says he was trained from birth to withstand pain by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012