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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... up with people for no reason other than to derp in the hallways and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four ... that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... , children, come to Muti for school. Many will live with relatives or rent

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  designs. The original plan was for students to submit pictures to be etched ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a problem that have specific properties for you to minimize and maximize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  list, asking us to apply for the[annotation note="Residence EXploration ... scenarios and start to put together a framework for each of them, considering ... , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... involving education for kids, public policy, and using media to effectively ... for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... 've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for ... mins 2 hours. go to class again. eat lunch. work for 5 4 hours. go to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include ... broke the other day, and I went down to Wheelworks and hung out for 45 ... . Only worn when Mobbin’ Stay posted to our website for all upcoming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... to sit around and wait for someone to write it for us. We are more than ... senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  features: There are so many lists online about things to consider for college ... doing it — “just be more rational”. but it is human for us to value these kinds of things, and it is better for us to be aware of them, rather than

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... ? You don't want your art to be that person. Go for it.” This applies not ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  ’s response to Austin. Sofia Campos: “Reaching for our dreams of our ... to brainstorm ideas for how to reach that kind of transformation and ... are a lot more people who want to reach for that vision with me, because

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024