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  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... it's already October. We're a third of the way into the semester ... of my friends are also graduating a semester early. It's one semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  geniuses, most of us are struggling just as much you are. And, as much as I ... de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of ... the voices of 45 other MIT'ers from all walks of life. These quotes are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... center) 2:04 -- I just led everybody through a game of MIT Hangman. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours and writing a review at the end of the process. If hired as a blogger, I will guarantee you exclusive rights to the publishing of this review and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of ... labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the ... about my journey, and I thought I'd share some of them with you all to see ... direct to LAX. I spent most of the flight napping and reading back issues

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has ... wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours ... problem together, first you need to find a partner whose level of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  would be doing this kind of stuff in college, she would be excited and (hopefully) proud of me. But, it's definitely not what she would've imagined it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... reach the bottom of the screen. I chose Guitar Hero for this project for several reasons: It’s dynamic, fun, and one of my favourite

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago[/annotation] was CPW, or Campus Preview Weekend. A lot of really neat events happened ... [/annotation] with homework and exams. I have a lot of half-written blogs that I want

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a mountain range of saguaros. Sah-wah-rows. I am from Arizona, which means it’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new ... -pitch run-down of the intro blog is “Cambridge has no fields or horses or ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my ... , when I move out of Boston? I'm scared that I'm going to leave this place

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won ... . how to be on top of your email. i've learned that mit runs on email, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  midst of planning Comedy Night and SpringFest. I'm really nervous since I ... Fest which is arguably one of the biggest event, if not the biggest event, of ... in Times Square watched The Book of Mormon on Broadway gotten lost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  you aren’t comfortable sharing with others. All of our privacy policies ... Registrar’s Office and Office of the First Year for example) and with some
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  friends, refreshing some of my math knowledge, incredibly weird technology ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021