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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped ... . Towards the end of the conversation, he glanced at his watch and gave me one ... presentation. All of them turned to look at me. The terror that Dumbledore could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... world, take risks, try new things. I wanted to be at MIT. And so, I ... plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... be an idea around MIT that while at MIT you could only pick two of ... requirement later down the road. There are a lot of good classes at MIT, and it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at ... years I’ve been at MIT, I haven’t become any less of an introvert, with ... , the guaranteed hard times at MIT mean that the depth of friendships will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  wouldn't result in a scar, you're just scratching at the surface of the ... Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one ... Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  there are lots of different ways that you can talk about your work at a ... entire list of research published at that conference, which is pretty dope ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  a new sort of dilemma. You'll find a balance (and maybe stop lurking ... climbing trees and bake dozens of cookies at 3am. 27) Changing majors is not ... instead of a confused freshman. It will feel incredibly strange at first

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  organization that encompasses the sorority side of Greek life at MIT. Panhel is ... someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I ... and talked to the Potential New Members myself. There was a lot of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat ... actually obsessed with purple which puts us at very opposite ends of the same ... a snake that ate something.” At the start of my sophomore spring, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... from Tetazoo and up five flights of stairs at tEp, where I'll be living

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  floor of Stud, starting at 12 noon and ending around 1am. We did a lot of ... than usual lol, because I could not function at this level of ... E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  perpetuates the technical bias pervasive at MIT that the value of a field of ... entire list of faculty members added to the display is included at the end ... : The Dean's Office is postponing the installation of a planned new

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  exploring all of DNA repair, or at least homologous repair which you can ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at ... none of those are true at the moment. Between classes and the annoying ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  far away, because looks at all these new experiences you've had. The new ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  this past Saturday, on the evening of the Old New Year’s Day. The ... buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012