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• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I know that. Lots of things happened, and particularly this fall (what with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester, each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers ... expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... couldn't be all bad. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Read Everything is Illuminated by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college atmosphere. There are lots of parties, dances, and social events. East Campus ... , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too little sleep. I haven’t eaten since yesterday evening, and I’ve sort of arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... -off because shaking off the mentality of 'if it's not on my resume then it's not ... application process kinda messed me up and i'm still unlearning a lot of things

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  like that. .______. I realized that I'm very capable of taking four HASS classes, but not capable of taking four science classes (friend: "why are ... under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... representation of student life, providing prospective students and applicants with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  Note: all of my MIT essays can be found online so if you're curious ... acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011