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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... focused on ecology and organismal biology (but not evolution -- I'm from ... on the side (hey, it's MIT). It is, as you are probably aware, one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  , come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed ... pitfalls that make this process focus on the wrong factors and make it a ... kids on the right decision making path. AND YOU MUST LET YOUR CHILD MAKE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... get my act together before the semester starts on Tuesday.  The last ... office and saw a letter from Shakespeare lying on my desk, I opened it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  conversations with random people Chances are you've given up on your artistic ... satisfying to work on bigger problems than smaller ones," he replied. "Yeah ... important to be cautious about the moves you make on the board." "So you fill

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus instead to meet my deadlines and work on projects I've been dreaming about ... too early, but I love the aesthetics: children in knit caps, sunshine on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  from 1-4 on MWF and 1-2 on TR Do homework and sit with friends from whatever time until 4 or 5 Go to ZBT for dinner Go back on the van If ... slots for when I can do fun things, like that nice slot from 2pm to 5pm on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... accumulating in me as the days go on. but they’re more like rings inside a tree ... do things. take this post, for example. i’ve been sitting on this post

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  times. I went on boats and thrifting and kayaking and brunching. I went to ... . I also made my own hummus this summer and started snacking on hummus ... nice to go through the past and reflect on it from a better place

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  .00.']like:[/annotation] Last year, my education was [on zoom, hybrid ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... the last one: "Who should I ask to write letters on my behalf? And the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  out and the thought of having random paint on my face always disturbed ... . On desks, on water bottles, on their face. It was messy. Most notably ... foreign. I was the kind of person that needed to dwell on something before

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  hide and a place to seek from a list of 20 locations on MIT's campus ... Seek at MIT, mid-pandemic – hypothetically, I could stock up on masks by going to MIT Medical and then go social distance from everyone on Briggs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  ,[/annotation] but before this week, my last post was made over one year ago on May 27 ... challenge because I never had the mental space to reflect on my situation. I ... , plus blogging"]far too many obligations[/annotation] and held on for dear

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself ... evaluate each application.  In a blog post on COVID from early March, we ... learn on your own at home.[/annotation] I want to reassure you that we

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... undecided on a major, I just knew I wanted one. TL;DR I'm basically a pretty ... out internships on my own. I mainly just Google'd some generic phrases

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... ". Becoming a regular on Discord: I'm a bad gamer, so I've [annotation note ... [/annotation] on [redacted crossword puzzle website], as well as other puzzles. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team ... where I missed cheering on my friends, the texts and FaceTimes I didn ... have no class on Fridays. I'm going to spend less time on psets, at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  architecture/woodworking/crafts nerd, I knew we had to go on a tour; I spent the ... loft designs I scribbled on a napkin in the car on the way home. Six ... on that napkin, and later on graph paper, I drew out cloud lift lofts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note="MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave"]Lobby 7.[/annotation] i let my ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  , right when the application came out I jumped on it and was like, “I ... period of EXTREME STRESS, I finally submitted my application on Oct. 31 ... made (or think you made) on your application. This is normal. It shouldn

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It ... choice considering all the options! — and snacking on some food, I went off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017