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  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged ... else to do. I felt so desperate to get the words out, yet so gut-wrenchingly terrified. I needed to get closer to the words so they’d get out of my damn

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  of reasons. I wanted to get better at guitar and paint more, in ... love getting to go to so many. Getting my job offer in September ... with just major decisions in my life like decisions to apply to grad

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... getting me out of bed, among other things that the cube gets me through in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  of Destiny Do you want to get lost in the bacon-y, bacon-y sauce? Yes ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who ... life of its own, and kind of sucks you in. But you’ll also need to be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  to lead the team in spirit. Yours truly was the bearer of Hood Beav ... preseason is the time to get to know each other better. [carousel image1 ... ="102711" image4="102714" /] 4. Boston :) I am so so so happy to be back in Boston

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  ."]temped[/annotation] in MacGregor?” “Yea to both!”  “I’m SO hoping that I get to stay in ... getting this far. In the meantime, hope you enjoy these silly spooky stories ... walking down the Infinite and can’t wait to get back to your dorm to catch a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  studies to focus in excess of 80-100 hours per week on building their ... older. This stands in stark contrast to our team which welcomed 25 new freshmen this year alone and prides itself on taking in people with little to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  accepted or not. But every time I get to thinking this way, EVERY single ... as a freshman in high school. She is me at the core. She is enough to ... are, what inspires you, what makes you tick. Once you get in touch with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  . V -- 2.007 was the other day and, although I didn't get to stay for ... in toy land. I still don't want to tell you what we're making, but I ... , readjusting all of my user settings, and trying to get everything back to normal

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  semester. Early in the school year, I kept getting emails about spending IAP ... experience in English. The bigger goal here then is to inspire an interest in ... much can change in just one week. It took just a minute or two for me to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts ... beginning this monster, I've decided to share happiness with the world, in the ... surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  leaving in the past. Honorable mentions included missing having access to ... in a tea shop with a friend. the low barrier of entry to try new things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... might be relevant in order to fill in the rest of the space. To fit everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... of things we’d like to see happen in “our” ELL: bigger groups, greater ... volunteer learned that he or she was to role-play as the Director of FEMA in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in ... new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... they do something you don't like, it's hard to get angry at them because

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  well as space in CAVS to meet, and we arrived early in order to prepare ... painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own ... to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  standards until you've learned to be satisfied with mediocrity. And so, in ... 't even my lowest grade of all time in that point--that honor fell to an AP ... paying attention to the fact that I was getting all the answers wrong on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006