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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  ’t tell. Sometimes I return to that vision. It’s enticing. Not abysmal, as ... school did not prepare you for a basic survival skill. Your group was the ... preparing. But if you’re a senior right now, that’s not what ought to matter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  put on when it's cold and take off five minutes later when it's not cold ... , and a willingness to sleep in things that are not beds. Not homework ... homework over CPW, you’re doing CPW wrong. Not food. You’ll get a card with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the ... hours of some of the dining halls around so that they're not all ... compulsion to eat at dining halls for almost every meal (if not every meal

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also ... reference, movies that I've slept through this year include but are not

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  cesium atom. Editor's note: The following is not for the faint of heart ... mind that this would imply that Random is not actually a residence hall by virtue of its lack of barbecue pits (not to mention a courtyard in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  not pounce on your toes under the covers?" "Life of a cat" "Training ... kittens play outdoors" "Why do kittens not look before they leap even if ... pawing things following me around standing up on their hind legs not having

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  world~. Whether they voiced it or not, I knew my family was really ... , they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the ... told me not to tell anyone at school that I had gone to therapy. Looking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  face not only the 3.7% international admit rate, but also dyslexia, a ... not match up with what she envisions in her mind. It takes her more time ... in his autobiography. Recent research has found that dyslexia is not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... they would not be allowed to live in Senior House in the fall, as new ... have not graduated on time (as if that’s some cardinal sin). I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  8.03 (Waves and Vibrations) with high expectations. I was not ... difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... smashing all over the institute? No, that can't be right... Well, it's not a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  college, not knowing what to do after graduation, realizing that your ... laugh, or at least mutter a perplexed "...what?" Turns out, I'm not the ... judges were thinking when they made me a winner. Did they not get enough

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move ... social media, but not quite reduced to only direct text messaging. I like ... they are sharp and capable of cutting things. A knife does not exist

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  before moving out, finals week rolled into[annotation note="I'm not sure if ... nearby. As "MIT's newest alumni" (a term I did not want to contemplate too ... . Despite not having registered in advance like we were supposed to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  “Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging ... ?"]I'm almost certain that I have two.[/annotation] Unfortunately, I'm not nearly ... that I go here. Not even in a "I belong here!" sense, but that I am a) no

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  not like the one I joined, and dropped. I have been constantly wondering ... major shift. I'm not living in Random this incoming fall, which is ... medical reason b) find someone else to take my place c) pay dues while not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  /笨蛋 (idiot/"stupid egg"), stinky girl Notes: these days since i'm not home she ... very therapeutic although she's not good at handling tears because ... belongs to my roommate Dominik, though we call him Dom (the person, not the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  long day❤️ (I am not, in fact, being paid to advertise, but maybe I should be!) Everyone says that this is not a normal time, that we are ... life isn’t cutting me any slack. Pandemic or not, there is simply too

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  not an issue; U-Locks are quite cheap, [annotation note="i got a good ... , and if you lock your bike correctly, you should not have any problems. i ... ...you're chilling! biking in the city is Scary it's really not that bad lol. Boston

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  1000 extracurriculars to students who haven't been this not busy since ... friends, which i am not. so, now that i'm in the midst of social distancing ... -janky chat box (looking at you, Zoom...) please, god, do not Zoom call to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  ="and not just Le's in Harvard Square or The Friendly Toast in Kendall, which ... added bonus of getting to watch the SuperBowl on the bar TV. Not that it ... ="attachment_50882" align="aligncenter" width="225"] i was not kidding[/caption] The

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020