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  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I ... points. Here are some of the things I've learned to be true from my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... , hand-made, and revamped goods. It reminds me of the Fenway Flea in Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  were kids. Their parents moved with them to the US, but 3 of the 4 ... like the Times Square of Madrid- there are more people in the streets ... Mónica). Then Mónica and I left to meet the rest of her siblings (Martín is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... fact, I did extra reading. We read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which is bound with Incidents in the Life of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of ... academic study in a way that goes beyond just taking classes. As the end of ... a position that matched the type of technical work I was looking for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  you the short and long version of this post, and you can choose! It ... have good friends who live there - Keri is just sort of.. the anti ... , regardless of whether you apply for RBA or not. Even if you don't apply for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff I guess

  

  Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit ... misti. turns out, miguel is thinking of misti also for the summer ... -help quotes go... "failure is not the opposite of success—it's part of success

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... the young entrepreneurs around me are college dropouts (all out of ... startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... my eyes to the intricacies and mind-blowing consistencies of language…and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this ... true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... of shopping advice blog, with article titles like “Deals of the Week

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  .5”x3.5” pieces of paper. I am putting the finishing touches on my Magnum ... Orientation Captain! I got [annotation note="captain of the white team 🤪'"]the ... the orange team 🙄'"]Caleb M. ‘27[/annotation] .  On top of this, I was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs ... among the ups and downs of my life. But things have been busy. In the ... . 9-5, morning coffees, the whole shamwow. I've been doing a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT ... , because the experience of writing a hunt involves so many different things ... band The birth of the smobster Squee squee! Becoming stronger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite ... share of the 114,000 known PC viruses over the years, none of which are an ... 's just the better choice. (Yeah, Apple's really not paying me for any of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note ... given advice can be digested by the recipient regardless of whether or not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019