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  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  glimpses of full recovery. Eating New York style pizza in Manhattan without ... and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... chance to share my personal experiences. Trigger warning: discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note ... tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... of that misfortune made [annotation note="and consequently, me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... – here I lay a small piece of this rich tapestry! I see what you have done

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... including both 5.07 and 5.13, but there's no avoiding that.) Some of you have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  Harvard announced that they were evicting the vast majority of their ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always struck me as kind of odd that they picked "Do You Hear the People Sing?" as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  't Pepsi. MIT's a university, so maybe the concept of a graphic identity for a university is something that's relatively recent. As part of the ... of universities, MIT's 2003 logo doesn't seem so recent anymore. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of ... HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... different. I normally spend a lot of time editing and crafting admissions

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  recommendations for me, please let me know! Some of my favorite books are ... some sort of coding competition, like BattleCode, weblab, or Poker ... unacceptable. I'm planning to go to New York sometime this year so!!! hopefully I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

   "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky ... (which involves a personal statement, a plan for finishing your degree, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  . So before that happens, and before the feeling of summer slips away ... of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... , already sleeping across from me. Some weeks, it got kind of hot, but we had

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand New York, NJ, N.C., VA We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand Oaktown

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store ... beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023