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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  practice before entering university. I wanted to focus on my studies while in ... . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  offered in 5 terms: Quarter 1 (Fall semester through October-ish), Quarter 2 ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... graduate, with at least 1 in each department along with various other rules

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  sports teams, and a whopping 25% of students will participate in one during ... Collegiate Athletic Association, which is the organization in the United States in charge of college athletics

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in ... !" or "I'm scared I won't get in!" but things like "I am worried that when ... itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... 'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... leave anything in [annotation note="my dorm"]MacGregor House

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... wisdom, but I’ve certainly done it. So here, in a collection of vignettes ...   I like telling people that I’m a six-foot-tall man in my head. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  actually haven’t really had anything noteworthy in this arena - the first ... up late. Last semester, I found that my most productive hours were in ... . Film (or write about, I'm sure) anything related to music in MIT. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  talk about the “distributions” in our future careers—just as university ... in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high-school students interested in pursuing singing in the future, and the choir director

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend reading the profile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

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

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  's worth of reading...even in technical classes! :O Recently a big chunk of ... -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... user interfaces. We read a couple of papers published in 1990 (!) by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  you'll see that my 2013 Pi Day was equally exciting, though in a totally ... 's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... of Disease and Health in Society) and watch a pretty intriguing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there ... research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc ... time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all ... figured out before college (or in college) — let me be evidence that you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... hacking, the near-infinite research opportunities, MIT's mission in the ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  my fingers in a peace sign over her head and giggled declaring “HAPPY ... … wait for it….DARY [/annotation] in my family. Every year, without fail, I ... what we all learned in elementary school - that the pilgrims (European

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there ... your strength, the wobbly feeling in your legs when you climb stairs the ... training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set in Boston/Cambridge because I was curious and I read American Panda by ... - Accomplished...in a bit. I'm signed up for PearlHacks happening in February

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Institute offers. I'd primarily recommend a class in your (prospective) major ... Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008