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• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  are so many people I want to keep in touch with, and I know I can see ... here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in ... DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today ... 't know the answer, but perhaps I can persuade Ben to answer it in the ... applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  in LA and got back just the day before the first day of classes. I ... cause decision fatigue? I can imagine this is the case for lots of people ... On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... were definitely my stronger subjects in high school, and so I figured I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  example, in the context of blogging, I can write my blog posts on Notion ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban ... assignments, you can filter and sort the table and view it in multiple of ways

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would ... reading if you will. Remember Tim's promise. Best of luck in the weeks ... you'll get over it but you feel like you never will.[1] So if I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ’m 6’ 4”. I can touch the bottom of every pool I get into. I haven’t been ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the ... test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the ... beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  . But hey, don't get me wrong - you can do a lot of other things in the ... ; Yep, no need to do anything serious. I did a bunch of these things in ... early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  explain, but when I’m on campus, I’m just less certain in my own sense of ... problem that fits into big, general themes I’m in the middle of exploring ... can’t fully process the extent of how I am changing. When I’m on campus

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties ... firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... could’ve had to gain experience in programming. It's a pain, but I can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  , personally, and to the leadership I have shown in the realm of proper beards ... Novembeard can, in this way, be a burden, as few around you are of such refined ... importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  focus on the good parts, because there are lots of those too. I can tell ... school where I can do so while majoring in something completely different ... : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  'd want something more than the above.) I'm blogging because in a true show of academic superskillz, I completed two full problem sets last night. Yes, you read that correctly. I did two whole psets in just under five

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let ... and sense of community i've received in all aspects makes me weepy ... change in so many ways in the past few years. i'm the last member of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  now almost everyone's heard of it. i got it especially bad, though ... says it's an annoying part of the healing process. i just think my hands ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  a constant in my life for as long as I can remember, and added ... precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020