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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by ... going to countless recruitment events and throwing my hat into a whole slew of different things, and I thought I'd document all my successes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might have little control over how things turn out. It's rough. More and more towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... ’t find the time. I’ve been working on a new project, and I’m writing a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  boredom and morbid curiosity, I downloaded and read through a 400 page radio manual. I took the test, got my license, and joined a local [annotation ... met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  little bit of what Boston has to offer and how you can fit that bit of ... classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a ... bought lunch at Stata, handed over my ID and was alarmed to see that little "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad school. All my classes are remote, and I don’t have campus access, so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible people on here. I've befriended seven incredibly talented and intelligent individuals, each set with their own unique interests, passions, and strengths

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... and because I had a lot on my plate. dropping a class definitely helped

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  to read, draw, write, cook/bake, listen to new music, and journal to be ... feel occupied enough to avoid the quarantine tedium. and it feels very high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find ... with tough academic classes, sports, extracurricular activities, and ... the couch and watch Gossip Girl, Degreassi, and OchoCinco: The Ultimate

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  a source of academic knowledge that might help me with my courses and ... “regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in film ... . The objective is that you start from one article, and you have to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  ....grumble grumble), and all this can only mean one thing. The MIT machine is back in ... institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... calculations to derivate the coefficient of friction on complex surfaces and sum

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  an airport wearing a facemark, gloves, and only black clothes (major apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three ... for about two weeks, dealing with different waves of grief and gratitude

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... equipment that is gathering dust"]storage closets[/annotation] and [annotation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on ... carved wooden railings, eclectic murals and sculptures in every nook and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same ... rather a smaller, standing-room-only venue, and this was her only ... tickets at face value, but then she fell sick several days beforehand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the dark and stumbling across roadblocks. The second theme is talking. Lots

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... during their time at MIT. Two are humanities classes, and the others relate ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023