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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what to write about. Over the course of this flight, I’ve written and ... come in their own time. Maybe it’ll happen over the course of this road

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... that reminds you of home. Your dorm is your new home for the next eight ... of the I-9 form lists all of the acceptable documents. So bring it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... . Pictured: mad geek cred.Building 46, home of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... that night. Coincidence? Or was our room blessed by the patron saints of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  through the lens of, well, a content machine. This won't be the most ... commodify it, sell it for the blogs under some guise of 'relatability'. But in reality, it's to maintain some sort of relevance, to get the comments and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me. But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... than just an aesthetic wrapper, but rather as the core of a product that ... manufacturing videos shown in lecture. It's learning the details of fin theory in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  fall I made the mistake of solving problems with my study group without ... other end of the spectrum where I did all of my psets entirely by myself ... studying the night before, I would take care of everything else so that I had

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 ... . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might ... hard decision. 1 - none of the reasons i love MIT now are the same as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  Office of Digital Learning (aka ODL - the same fine folks who bring you ... things about MIT - the people, the research, the facilities, etc. - none of ... , there are lots of things about the transition to grown up life and this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... the technical aspects of many different wintersports, such as: Hiking ... over the weekend, where you can visit one of MITOCs two New Hampshire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  Education Arcade. I just found that I really liked the environment of the ... to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... the event coordinators on the progress of each group! It's a good time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  since the second term of freshman year. Of course, I have by now missed my ... while watching the turtles at the pond where I’m working. I am jealous of ... focus on physics tonight. 6:15 — Dinner begins with the ringing of the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... to take their class through an [annotation note="the anxiety of writing ... wouldn’t have known to ask.  1. Ask the prof to save you a seat ahead of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... of the people there. Mostly my fellow physics majors. Because math

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... she wasn’t invited to my house, but the jumble of Russian-English that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  (to you, dear reader), because Sam was basically the coolest blogger of ... Awkward" has been murdered, and we've been charged with the task of figuring ... "little black book" with lots of contacts in it. We've got to solve the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... a bit of all three. But the numbers all point in one direction: you ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004