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  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... lab. It's nice to know I don't do it for the tangible rewards. :) MIT ... movies here. I will personally apologize for the quality of the airplane

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  :45 for fencing, and then sometimes go back at night to squeeze some more ... are also willing to play for five hours straight as well. truly a ... this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... looking forward to this trip for years, I spent the day mentally managing my ... bearings, I now understand that effort and care need to paid for something to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  want is for college applications to add to that stress. We know that some ... same criteria to evaluate applications for both EA and RA. Take the time you need to apply in the timeline that works best for you and don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to ... to be stifling, but we found a way to rely on one another for ... hard for me to understand that there are people who aren't as welcoming

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  ’s really hard for me; it seems really Meta to me to not only make a body of ... the world, so then like, I guess it became more important for me to just ... look to, non-visual artists for inspiration. I really love Frank Ocean

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  .01, Intro to Neuroscience. This class has changed since I took it (for the ... appropriate person. Course 9 students are also required to take at least one ... MIT's BCS program is for med school?" Not being premed, I won't try to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that ... where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was actually pretty astounding. He’d lost the ability to speak and, for that week

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  writing the first story for the class—I wanted to explore the feeling of ... note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts ... to sing, and, accordingly, put people into various duos and trios that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... about it. Then I had another plan for this blog post: I was going to build

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  explain. A lot of it is tangled in details too personal for the blogs, but ... … Taylor Swift’s songs came to me for the first time at exactly the right ... ’t relate to as much, the vehicle for those songs that was her voice gave them

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  analyze. Still, it was fantastic to finally talk to someone in person after ... interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... elections. From Dale's cousin's house, we returned to the hotel for our last

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to ... . For example, almost all the people I've talked to have been to the IMO ... 't even close to being considered for that test). And I felt exactly like

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  Greg is going to come join me for the east coast version. Making things ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  time to take in everything around me. For the most part, campus looked ... see them all together, in person. For now, however, we have Zoom and ... I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  Cormick this weekend.  Personal recommendations? Go to Taste of Cambridge! We ... better for the prefrosh that come after us. Because we are excited to meet ... like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th grade, I declared my ambition to one day run for a position on the ... detail that each student's "home" school district is required to pay for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  pay the bills. It is a side pursuit for when I am not writing. I used to ... for advice; I’m excited to gain confidence, come into any machine room ... Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  my personal academic goal for MIT is to pull off a cummulative 4.0 GPA ... 're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard ... was getting really sick of it. People were always coming to me for help

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006