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• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Franz Kafka, we bloggers too suffer from “writers’ block” or creative ... posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female ... of inspiring science teachers, I also had one or two who wondered aloud ... button the guy way. I've never had my intelligence questioned or my opinion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  socialize, not unlike a hipster bar in an NYC bomb shelter, or Olympic Stadium ... . All organizations - profit or nonprofit, private or public - require human capital to produce their goods or spread their message. We're all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  was warm. I walked around without a hat or gloves and didn't feel the ... 's taking on a new project, writing a computer program, or putting together a ... easily frustrated by lack of progress, or by people who seem more content

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  are our sentimental objects!   1) Incredibly cute drawings that ... who drew us in space in #1!) just before our senior year started 19 ... #1 and #18) during our Thanksgiving break trip to Brooklyn (same trip

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  college (MIT or otherwise): Be yourself: Students spend so much time trying ... path: There really is no one perfect school for anyone! You will probably ... be prepared to spend four years there as it may be where you will go

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  data about the Senior House community…” Keep ripping the picture, think ... “troubling data” outlined in the email. The one that strikes me as the most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  . Will it be the sense of community and family of living on my floor, or ... ’m ready to stop focusing on how my community will no longer be living on our ... friendships built there will last. Being home in New Hampshire will definitely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  or anything of the sort, but I did know that sometime in the spring, I'd get a yes or a no. There were a few times when I freaked out about my ... you will receive those letters, and some of you will not. One piece of

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  classes will have one or the other, so everyone is busy in some way. on the ... fingers to the beat, to run instead of walk. i went to maybe three or four ... not even go to all the ones i wanted to, like next sing or the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  café, or (dare I say it) constantly refreshing the decisions.mit.edu page ... waiting (not scrolling on my phone or talking to someone, but just existing ... wondering if I got the time wrong or the date wrong, or maybe they're mad

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  to meet others who share their interests. More broadly, crazy or offbeat music with a nerdy, fantastic or science fiction theme can qualify ... , or Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy, or Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  race that's 10 miles or longer in length. In a fit of madness I ... of The Oatmeal).  I got an awesome time at that one, around 1 hour 50 ... was definitely sleep-deprived. The next morning was the 10k (or about 6

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  are the ones I REALLY hope you'll attend (for reasons which will become ... will be at the Meet The Bloggers Party. (Duh!) If you've been following ... admissions bloggers will be there - please come, and bring your parents too

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  a few months, or a few weeks. Will I actually get more exercise ... of pieces, delivered by individuals or small groups of actors, talking ... or being asexual. Of course, I also learned a lot about, you know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  before or what will come later. I now have three more years to experience ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... .033.[/annotation] I usually finish the math pset a day or two before it's due, and I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  , and bears get really really fat.  [carousel image1="80642" image2 ... second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other ... semester has midterms or even just tests of any kind. My single midterm came

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  fiction. All my other work, less holy, could be done in libraries or at my ... once were. Or maybe it isn’t static -- every piece of you that’s emerged ... ; when precisely did I beat that out of her?  And who will you become

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  App essays, or gearing up for the MIT regular deadline. Wherever you are ... a ~reflective~ playlist that will hopefully help you introspect as you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create ... fine. Remember, college is mostly what you make of it, here or anywhere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018