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• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite you to read some of these pointers. They'll set you up well for your ... when you do, either! Enforce a separation of work and play, and know whom

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last ... enough, MIT was the picturesque landscape for the indie movie I convinced myself I was starring in. And for the most part, I would argue these

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  playlist; tw: suicide mention briefly Today, I interviewed for a ... far I've strayed from that this summer. Work has been hard for me. I'm a loud, outspoken individual. For the most part at MIT, my character

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  and pasted them together to make this. Not my best work, for sure. so ... for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  life is [annotation note="trial and error is the best way to learn and I ... it to make it to yours? If you happen to be in the market for advice ... 've prepared for you today. Go to class. Structure and routine are good for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  projects, finals, senior week, graduation, traveling, and now MISTI for the ... implications of the legislation and the precedent it set for the global tech ... Course 6 to better understand and contribute to the policy debate. For the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a ... reputation for melodrama, but in retrospect, I think that this magnification of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  : I would like to not drop a class, and the best way for me to reach ... [annotation note="very helpful class planning website for MIT students that's updated for each semester"]Hydrant[/annotation] and[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... , until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every ... stayed here for a long, long time. I thought I could drop the things that ... the pits of your stomach. And so you start to overcompensate for that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  to take the test knowing I had prepared as best I could. For the next ... . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... .012 make me so miserable...and for what matter, what is 8.012? Well, let me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then ... . But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas ... how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  my personal life—lifting four times a week, writing for fun, cooking at ... for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google ... of a simplification for how engineering works, because much of its

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  genuinely want the best for me and tell me to put myself first.   ... a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? [annotation ... , partially because I had given up on trying to dodge his small children for

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of ... ’s time to share the wealth, so I’m here to lay out for you all the tips and ... have a language requirement to prepare you for a serious language

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... together. That process, which has now been ongoing for literally years ... wide as saucers. For those of you wizened crones who were familiar with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  . Below is a list of ten of the best spaces for both of these activities ... discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  arrangements for vegetarians??" mudfud again comes to my rescue: "There are ... can get quite a wide variety of vegetarian food (and nonveg for that ... Campus) have really nice kitchens, so you can cook for yourself as well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  right now," Luca said when we went in earlier today for lunch. Grace and ... station, macarons in hand. I've been yearning for the Le Creuset Valentines cookware set for weeks now. Something about heart-shaped pots and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience ... ability to do any of these things. you have to make time for your partner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021