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• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  fingers to the beat, to run instead of walk. i went to maybe three or four ... not even go to all the ones i wanted to, like next sing or the ... classes will have one or the other, so everyone is busy in some way. on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different ... want to get money, credit, or just volunteer. Also remember: There ... 're sending out cold emails or talking to people face-to-face, these are good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  MIT students have to live in a dorm for all four years (they don't), or ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in ... basic decision as Sam: whether to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset or tons of work in general, I'd grab my pen. During one memorable ... pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  my students want to come to college in America or even just come and ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... came to America from China in 2000, having just finished second grade

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  to already, or how many i'm going to frantically apply to in the week ... 't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... ="unless that code happens to be written by nasa or healthtech and really can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  months ago. In that time, where we proceeded to hang out almost daily, he ... only so much time in a day to do everything, so why do you deserve their ... another point: in getting to know others, it's not only about making that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing ... another blog, The People's Daily, to catalog my day-to-day experiences. In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  person to say hi to a stranger or dance in the rain in front of a crowd of ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... 'll refer to as Ellie in high school. Ellie was the kind of girl who would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  choose to participate in a variety of musical clubs, French or German plays ... ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... of its peer institutions in accepting women, who also got to work in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once ... flavor. After deciding to confirm my choice to live in East Campus, I ... activities were made available by each hall to aid in that purpose. A few

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... experiences. My pod mates are fun people to work with and just great in general ... I figured it’d be easier to ask first before I lose myself in Stack

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you're considered an international applicant if you're not a United States citizen or
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option ... . Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a click of a mouse button. Many childhoods of anticipation will come to an

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of ... or to settle any argument or anything... What do you see when you look ... While everybody else pores over equation sheets for 6.041 or 10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  grown up, in general. some thoughts: these days when i'm in an uber, or ... in theory flexible, but in practice, it's easier to align myself with ... homework, or going on walks or meeting people or going to parties. my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... consider applying to American colleges in general and MIT specifically, if ... , who placed third in the world at IOI and will be arriving at MIT to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... small children kicking a soccer ball or sitting in a circle. While in ... apparently was okay, because we ended up in a congo line, dancing to Vietnamese

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday ... ="all two letter scrabble words in five minutes and esp classes: real or fake

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant ... would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008