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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Hell.  In September, the waterpark closed and I still did not have a real ... of a family friend. In February I got a temporary job at the census. I ... income. I would bring nothing but a $20 bill with me to the supermarket to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  in the greater Boston area by far - and picked up a nice, simple ... that as just a few car payments, plus the health benefits accrued by ... bicycle has several benefits, especially in a city like Boston. For one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you ... ! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  recommendations.” The Faculty did not “regard him as a candidate for graduation the ... Hartford District Committee for MIT alumni. Holman’s life is the dream for a ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... '36 The Human Genome Project, for which MIT's Whitehead Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  life? Was it really just a matter of solving for the right proportion, as ... identity, of distilling the essence of me into a few hundred words for a ... was coming from Chicago the next morning, so I asked for a later flight

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... Comm 2020 loves you!!) and a student-facing-business-person-that-works-for-the ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  the[annotation note="Terrain being a word which here means: the view outside my window."]terrain,[/annotation]like a deer across the savannah ... kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... about. For 3 hours a week we froze our butts off on the roof of building ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the ... that a couple did, but that's beside the point.) Many have had their own ... with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New ... , she jumped into the nearest tank and wrestled a rowdy octopus into ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , patience, and a little bit of tolerance for the seemingly endless stream of ... , by coasting for weeks at a time and then cramming two nights before the ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... been before (1-390) which is surprising, as for the last two years all my ... ‘safe’. But on the other hand, maybe I should really work on building a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... friends destress through acting or dancing or running 10 miles, but for a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... publicly talking about the contents of the paper for a while. It’s kind of ... fire, the flames would create a beautifully surreal whirring sound. For a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  for the rest of my life. I discovered a similar fear of becoming average ... desire for a "passion" that I've shared: I'd like to reassure you that the ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022