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• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched ... being totally worth it. All the shadows of high school were dispersed by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... -based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of ... families have different resources. The primary job of the application reader

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... envelope to open at the gate, which contained photos of my parents, my sister

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working ... feel the strength of each personality taking up space in the conference ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the ... that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  little space as possible offers the best protection. Both of them were ... year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims ... to stay safe, but the request felt empty. How could any of us ensure

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So I register online and the second step of the registration tells me to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... volume of work most high school seniors get themselves into -- e.g. the ... , because, well, there's a lot of it. Or, the electronic bits storing your

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of ... the 2019s in anticipation of pi day by Yuliya K. '18 (2015): but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  of the syllables "schla" and "nguy"*.) Having a simple yet so complex ... facebook-stalking (ah, the wonders of modern technology). A lot of people ... roommate the morning of the lottery, who turns out to be your soulmate - just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went ... am actually that much of a freak.) The fact that MIT’s its own little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the ... day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to make the most of my time abroad and appreciate all the opportunities that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  offers an Academic Expo, which showcases all of the majors available at MIT ... resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... about before this summer, and all of a sudden, they all seem like the most ... [annotation note="the mathier version of physics ii - electricity and magnetism

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... Regular Action" which happened to be the exact title of my post. Hm, go ... postmark all of the application materials by November 1, you may ask that we

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  continue with the math part of my degree. At the very least, I knew 18 ... overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring ... in the corners of otherwise miserable semesters, there can be spots of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the ... and organizations have come together to support the National Day of ... with plans to support the creation of 10 new community fabrication labs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lot of students enter as the "science kid" or some other variation only to be faced with the realization that a significant portion of the ... mainly mean this in the sense that a lot of my favorite memories have been

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023