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• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy!"]recently started posting again ... ="Thank you Petey and the rest of the blogfam for keeping me included throughout ... just made me completely incapable of making a single post for so long. I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  depleted for several months. There's a lot of reasons, professional and ... MIT, I take pride in my own high capacity and drive for work. Being able ... has problems with the drudgery of work, but burnout, for me, is when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... immediately thank the gods for finals week. My GRT, bless his soul, cooked up an

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  longer an option for Lobdell Food Court customers. Some of you might be ... rocky, but I could always rely on it to be there for me. After long hours ... and cheese bread, and didn't accept card half the time, but for a sweet

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... recap of the final presentations after they occur. But for tonight, though

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  sunny weather for this week. I should preface this by saying: I love CPW ... energetic version of myself for one weekend. I didn’t get many pictures for ... . Regardless, I’ve compiled what I have, and for what I don’t, I wrote the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary ... cars, STrIDE has developed sensors for your shoe that alert you of ... be extremely useful for helping people not stub their toe.   MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... McDonald's hacking MIT? This is like the Zapruder film for reflexive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  name for a general inscriptive strategy, one that uncovers the ... to prepare for reading and selection, which has already begun for QuestBridge and which will soon begin for Early Action. So the next few weeks I'm going to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  very far removed from the circus that was college applications for me and likely for others. Therefore, I feel a sense of duty in debunking my own ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their ... any additional students for the Class of 2020. We have seen all the ... ). Looking back now, it was a great fit for me and I had an amazing experience

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  towards MIT, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Killian Court had been ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... themed for a certain decade and most featuring open bars:   And

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  invests money from the venture capital firm they work for into those ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how ... those steps was moving off campus. And that is why I moved off campus for my senior year. It was the absolute correct decision for me. Now, my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  are restrictions that are unnecessary for you (I want to crotchet!!) and ... again, or at least for a very very very long time. Also, now I'm terrified ... cat waiting for me. I want my cat!!!   And that's it. I'm here

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some ... and also raising money for the Big Jimmy Scholarship Fund.  The Fund ... side 2015 calendar today at wotes.mit.edu!!! And pick up/pay for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... the attention, begged for pastries, and generally took advantage of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... 's an argument for applying. What kinds of fellowships are out there ... audiences. For astronomy graduate students, this website has a pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  this year. During this time, we've been waiting for all our admitted ... ;closed” and will not admit any additional students this year for the Class of ... letting us know how much you love MIT. We thank you for your patience during

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  go and signed up for the trip. It was an annual trip that the Boston ... finished up with skating for a bit, a bunch of us gathered wood and started a ... all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013