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• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  something that's made me view it all differently. At the essence of what he ... this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... get better. Rather, you get better at being at MIT. It's the little

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... 's least favorites. At the top of each poop entry is the averaged ratings and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and ... , if this were a normal semester, i'd be dancing upwards of six hours a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... desire, start a growing collection of Digimon plushies at the foot of my ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  of the two main hip hop groups at MIT"]Mocha Moves ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... held at MIT in December, so we talked about options for making classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  realize, about yourself and others, at only this level of understanding. But ... in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a ... 's gotten to know me better than nearly anyone else at MIT. He inspires me to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  charity banquet called Grains of Rice This year's featured band was Cake! I ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  . (Jessie lives at East Campus, which is one of the less restrictive dorms ... make?) Also, if you don't paint the room back at the end of the year, you ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges ... down a notch - otherwise the lives of high school students are destined

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  being aware of who you are for the wrong reason, at least you can avoid ... 2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  some truth to both of those explanations, but i think another relevant factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a ... questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  Raymond and I recently moved out of our Honolulu airbnb (blogpost coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... 't realize there was no kitchen at all, just a sink, a microwave, and some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  Experimental Biology). I glance at my watch, which of course is on my computer ... . Something feels different for me—among the usual buzz of activity ... feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of summer '09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee ... home, bound for MIT. Yes, I am known for my impeccable sense of timing ... flip side of the victim-EMT dealio. Which means that I get to deck myself

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom ... of you who applied Early Action have received your decision, and those of you who applied Regular Action have begun your anxious waiting

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on ... championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC ... the game like a crack of lightning, and you can instantly tell what type

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  from the top of Masada Women praying at the Western Wall The white city of Jerusalem A view of the countryside in the north of Israel At ... guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be a hero?  Foo ... You walk down the aisle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012