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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a ... personal biases and cultural influences. It wasn’t until I took a moment to ... opinion from a person that I admired to switch sides completely and abandon

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  glassblowing and psycholinguistics to creative computation. There are clubs for ... attendance to professional or academic conferences for undergraduate students ... prepared for if I knew how to calibrate my expectations better. If I ruin my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway ... 't get- OH MY [edited for content]." Yours truly somehow managed to receive

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  little contribution, and I have since modified and added to it for the ... (^how to make studying for finals in December cozy) I have had ADHD since ... other people are working there. The best way for me to study/work is to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  from my group's final presentation to a scene in Waiting for Godot   ... least for me, it's hard to completely relax and resume to normalcy after ... in my final assignment, I've felt the need to study for a coming exam

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  -insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... decided to mine my coworkers for Blog Content™️ by asking people for their ... have to toss a ball around or [annotation note="I actually have a note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  .253.3400) and we can tell you who that person is. Also, you need to contact that ... . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across ... , and chocolate fondue... paid for by the Office of Undergraduate Advising

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  goes for tons and tons of kids they didn't admit, too.) I wanted to be ... friendship to fall apart. If someone is giving you guff for making it into ... to you: "Oh look shiny MIT person". It's something I think you can only

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  the train, the plane, to work, at lunch, in the evenings, or my personal ... found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  entry on my personal blog. And they also happen to be t-shirts I just ... knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other day when, instead, you can listen to freshmen who are less jaded and

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided ... . My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my ... parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  been cooking for me. I have also had enough time to adjust that I do not ... incredible levels of kindness and care. (I am too awkward to ask for names so ... , email. there are resources and people for your help and you just need to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  for students who accept admission called REX that's dedicated to ... go to for a lot of people. There's also Senior House's infmaous bouncy ... weekend is for you. You've done some working hard, now get ready to play

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  , so applying to internships or looking for summer UROPs just wasn ... that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to search for summer opportunities. That summer we traveled to Israel for our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  Cambridge, you get a supervisor for every class. You usually share this person ... once you finish, you don't have to look at it again until you study for ... The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  , music, or art, at least as far as I've seen to date. For those of you who ... one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some ... asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... perhaps I wanted to do an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) to ... rigorous is less fun. But doing this for only five to eight hours a week is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent ... hours of sleep/studied for 20 hours/went to office hours and still failed ... different from person to person. I had increased the amount of time I studied

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015