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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you ... grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  professor last night, and frankly everyone is just counting down the minutes ... !!!!) and saying "Forget science. I'm dropping out to be a Benedict ... ://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation and wrote: I. Hate. These. Emails. Any motivation I have to fill out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the ... , some of which were fashionable, and some of which were unfashionable ... tears of frustration, they crystallized on my cheeks and shattered one by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  for my Lolo and restore him to a better state. I feel useless ... movie had ended, my hands shook with such a fierce tremor and I remember just calling up my grandparents and telling them how much I love them. A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  offers, interviewing at a dozen different places, and already having plans ... , and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I was staying on campus and was updated on testing and all that jazz. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  only have three semesters left at the institution, and I've been thinking ... looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture ... incredibly kind, brilliant, hilarious, and inspiring, and they made me into who

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... set of questions they see as unanswered and/or conflicts they see as ... they intend to approach analytically and solve with solid evidence and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  Esplanade and leaving The Institute behind at the end of the day for a few ... four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... about their lives here and I read all the admissions blogs too but I wasn

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW" but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list ... projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... semesters, and felt like I had squandered a block of time I could have spent

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a ... Campus dorm during my freshman and sophomore years, but when some friends were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards ... Pyrenees, right between Spain and France! Wait, you still don't see it? It ... Massana, Encamp, Escaldes, Andorra la Vella, and Sant Julià. Fun fact: if

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  I realize I went on this mindblowing trip with MIT 3 years ago and ... , I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and ... star plate. It was all resolved and put back together, at least all the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... its requisite promises and challenges; in his past lies a strong, resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... (7.26) and computation structures (6.1910/6.004) at a high level, the ... science and engineering, and fabrication technologies; then there are weekly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice ... and wedding announcements have appeared. Several of my middle school ... United Kingdom and started medical school at Stanford. Sometimes I think

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  resist reaching out and offering a hug. even if we've tested negative ... , that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  ) and chilled for four months taking various online courses, studying Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... , and then video calling my adMIT friends until 2 am.    like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  especially appreciate the time and guidance our coaches offer. Having feedback ... , I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up to practice ... and which way we were forcing the other team to throw, that was enough

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014