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• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his ... 're already be— cj: okay, shut up. the two of you, shut up. dan: … alan ... away from home? cj: well, the exact details of why aren't important. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken-or-the ... definition of any sea song"]Chanties[/annotation] for the last third of class ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a senior, the last day of classes for my undergraduate career. So, after my ... unpleasant, and there are many thoughts and feelings I have about the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental ... maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  -up of the firehose. But still. Back when I [annotation note="almost two ... the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... been struggling to find time for it. At the beginning of every semester I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... NJ. The Central Jersey meeting went well that night; nothing out of the ... of my childhood on the Jersey shore. The people in New Jersey are some

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... of these, using the situations of fictional freshmen. Be aware ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... am well down the path of healing, four years later. there's a part of ... always said. losing my friends was honestly one of the worst pains i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things ... earlier blogs, you might recognize one of the paintings! The top 3 paintings ... kept the cardboard because Mariia and Emma needed to make things out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ... that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read ... perfectionism and procrastination are two sides of the same coin. Perfectionists

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  (biological engineering) sophomore (whaaat, I'm not the baby of campus anymore ... was born and raised in Columbia, MO – home of the Mizzou Tigers ... ’s mascot. Seriously.) – located smack-dab in the middle of the U.S. While it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  the names of their kids' schools as status symbols. You've craved an environment full of other intelligent people. When the going gets rough in high ... until they get that piece of paper that will open the gate into the "real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  , particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the ... . MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be ... little pockets of the MIT landscape. And I stayed in some, and realized

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... that my January was more representative of the average student’s here. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get ... ? Well, the answer is that taking vacation in the peak of application ... along the edge of the pink sand - the concerns of the world blowing

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four" with "three and more!" Note that out of about ten people in the marching ... day of classes, after finding out the ISBNs for my classes, I went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  take a picture of yourself, and the people I live with (known ... entry for you other clueless '09ers. Right. So, just a note- the rest of ... page and the font is some hideous shade of purple or something, don't be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio ... describe my life through the coordinates of semesters. I don't know if I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022