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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  . Existence is a monstrous, tangled ball of yarn: all the strings cross and wrap ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  of lag response time because I will be traveling soon) Cross-posted on ... , really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  Specificity — generally, the higher degree of quantitative precision with which ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  a 360 degree view of the sunset. Someone was playing the violin nearby ... host of factors—but its time has finally come. Originally, Gosha was going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT ... , because the experience of writing a hunt involves so many different things ... looks like it won't be interesting. Most of what I'll be writing about is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... ,388 ft). It is an active volcano and a well-known symbol of Japan that is ... devouring bowls of chicken, eggs and rice, and buying a backpack cover that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years go on, a lot of these things will change and so it's always best to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... : Gryffindor + INFJ End of Freshman IAP: Gryffindor + ENFP End of Freshman Year ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  me, some of the people I care about, and this past year.   Figure 1: My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... the comments thread. A lot of questions while I was gone, here we go ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... of these things happened Oral surgery - Jan. 25 20th Birthday

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  post of his own about his time on the team, so now we’re bringing it full ... competition series. Our team consists of around 80 people now, divided into ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two ... of a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu Start early  This time around I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... cancer research. As I have heard stories of friends, I have found a problem

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert ... here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please ... awesome things (including making this website)-- I'm so proud of them!) We ... want to see awesome pictures of the American Southwest and read about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in ... sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... moments of my life. I actually look back at my blogs pretty often - then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... a couple days ago -- an official sign of winter's approach. i arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023