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• Blog / People & Identities

  am I doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  Some days are wonderful. Others are tough. And then... there are ... task harder, interaction tougher, and footstep heavier. The day feels oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  side, and a certain Institute of Technology it houses, reflects the voice ... brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They ... favorite side of the house. Well, there’s only two to choose from, and the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  , but you can easily deduce longitude, latitude, and altitude from the ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  )engineering, and being an upperclassman at this good old institute. ... implementation to consider, not to mention all the ethics, advocacy, and ... Tech for the past two years and know that he is not only an enthusiastic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... Institute of Technology......) But one of the largest challenges, at least for me, has been finding the time to try and pset all that needs to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  upperclassmen as well. Over the last week and a half the blogger committee - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  in three different states and twice as many towns. I've lived in ... , what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and ... I will say that I believe politics are relevant, and in my mission to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live ... flatbread, and it comes topped with three tons of cabbage and tomatoes and cucumbers and yogurt sauce. There approximately two döner stands on every city

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  name, home state, and interested courses/majors every time you met ... have an idea of what my day’s schedule looks like…and if you ... , you know that didn’t work out. The Icebreaker and CPW Festival

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• 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"]eduroam[/annotation] is giving me one bar. It actually loads search results and sends email

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  take a gap year, how the first week went, and what my plans are for the next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  runs the university laptop loaner program, and asked if I could get a ... , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit ... pointed out my items and asked if I could have my seat back, and he

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  short story for 21w.755, reading and writing short stories, entirely ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence level. my secret writing tip is to just write enough bullet points and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  men’s basketball game. Harvard is an NCAA Division I program and we are ... than any other DIII university. We call ourselves the Engineers. Our ... students should be more focused on activities like winning Nobel prizes and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  'm taking Advanced Essay Workshop with him, and I've never cared about a class ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going ... and lay in the grass between the chapel and the student center and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  and attending entirely different high schools and universities, with ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... their gate got moved? It was pretty dramatic; employees and passengers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  Happy Holidays everyone! I can't believe another semester's done and ... "upperclassman" and developing a programmed rhythm for handling a semester, all the ... to just LET. LOOSE. and jump on everything not class related. I'm not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  to grit my teeth and power through, forcing myself into a state of ... at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... deaths A few state schools, two or three smaller colleges, maybe MIT ... write about something that gives a good sense of who I am and what I value

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019