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  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and ... expo, or attending freshman formal at the top of the prudential. along

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect ... was academics. It was the feeling of running freely and openly at MIT to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  "] this view at sunset 😍[/caption] C: Next House new house if it was aged ... date. the new gym will be live in a year. sorry for the lack of good ... exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  with my glasses on. This time I aimed at the bottom of the bull’s eye, at ... at hand, not the pressure of the tasks coming up. I try to do my best ... . Look at the long game. A lot of times we get all focused and wound up on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  green plant patches to spring up at the bases of Pocket-colonized trees ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  than it should have, and it's taken on new shades of meaning over the ... , with new faces and new names as another class of freshmen arrives. I ... of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... body at this point and who are one of the few that can say they’ve been ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ... ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped ... read a very old, very tattered copy of it a couple weeks back, which a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about the comfort of knowing there's at least one thing out there that I ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive ... exciting, because it's so new. Last term there was a group of students trying ... As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to ... submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  undergrads UROP at some point. Most of the people I know currently UROP. While ... professor’s office number, and walked in. A couple of post-docs stared at me ... 'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a ... learned about work/life balance at MIT with the help of many wonderful ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... , the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top ... connectors, funnels, and hairdryers. At the end of one IAP, from BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  makes. Unlike some parts of the country and the world, here in New ... the time of day), and leafy view of my backyard; at work, you'll notice ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... and peaceful at night. There would be lots of bunnies. I'd be surrounded

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021