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  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  and offered their support and advice. On the afternoon I received the ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I ... , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  the office, I've already eaten paella and tortilla española, and I know the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the ... here Saturday afternoon and was met at the airport by Mónica, who is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  being and took the hint, offering us lodging for the night on his couch at ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber Brkich. A friendly janitor directed us to the subway station and we took an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full-time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... from 9 other roommates and mailing out the rent checks, making the switch

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  other things on your mind, and so much has happened between now and April ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  my professor’s offer to have one-on-one office hours with him and a TA ... hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... , but no one ever talks about the details and issues and real problems you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  graduation. I know what it’s like to move to an entirely new city and state. I ... playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  , with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us ... my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  interviews, and then got offered the role. I think it was similar, if not a bit ... Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period ... this past IAP. If you'd rather abandon structure and float through IAP

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... dressed, and collecting my books, an hour has passed. How did that take an ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!  

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... blogs are not a partisan platform, and our office is not a partisan policy ... , including Wikipedia, reddit, Reports Without Borders, Google, Mozilla, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  , MIT's computer science department offers an enticing-and ... friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and ... someone every month or so. Statistically, if you have 500 friends, and .5

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... apron and ruminated. Hair salons in particular are very good for this type

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  receive an essay that states, "...and that's why Harvard is my dream school ... -serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know, I've been on an AWARD TOUR WITH MOHAMMED MY MAN. And everywhere I go

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  's next? And Regular Action applicants may be now starting their ... hit the northeastern United States this past weekend, we are extending ... . If you wish, you may now fill out the conducted interview form and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... and fell 100 albums behind by June? would I really be able to devote ... school, I devoured Ready Player One a few days into the new year and had an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... world, and so on. Pretty much all admissions sites I've seen have this ... student life and culture, for example, you have almost instant access to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008