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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  area schools and try and find a place to live this summer. ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  -- one ready to metamorphose into a butterfly the other ready to cocoon for ... to the ground and a deep red blankets your feet. There is no amount of ... about that book daily and I really just wanted to write a poem about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... LOT. like a LOT. i didn't speak to anyone for three days after i read ... 't include me in their follow forever. in a way, it was comforting to just read

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  information." I'll try to do a longer entry about this earlier, but I encourage ... is to come!). And, if you can swing it, consider taking a gap year ... account.Is it a problem to worry about? Should I ask my Math lecturer to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  live in a dorm your first year on campus, so wouldn't it be great to find ... slay so here I am, a junior CPW chair, writing a CPW how-to with only ... . anyways, you have a dope website to help you plan your CPW, so there's no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  find an internship, a job or just find people to talk to about what you ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... both asked a version of: When/why/how did you switch to course 9? How is ... intelligence.. etc. I switched from course 5 (Chemistry) to course 9 by getting a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the ... Shop training, they actually teach you how to make a neat little flash ... machine that you can use to make some precise cuts into a piece by using xyz

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  , sometimes more than once. I felt like a quitter when I left things I loved to make time for new passions, Struggling to find ever-elusive balance; pj ... ’m going to love designing toys, experiments, problems without a doubt. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  read a novel until I fall asleep. And every time I find myself wanting to ... ’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel like I’ve aged enough in a year at MIT to have gray hairs coming out of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... same-day shipping service. Since there was no time left for delivery to ... asked my friend in NYC to go into my room and drop off the passport at a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  What is a scientific/engineering topic that you find most difficult to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  large whiteboards. You can often find people using the white boards to ... As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new ... think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  to the other 88% - have faith that you will find a wonderful place and ... schedule to mail today. The bad news: I woke up to a blizzard this morning ... conflicting weather reports - some say 4 inches; others say up to a foot. Start

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  worthwhile. Fit is also a two way proposition. Your child's job is to find the ... going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a ... the process. It really was a great opportunity for my family to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  get a copy of some book shipped to them. i picked the unbearable ... chocolate, and granola bars, and a note. “we look forward to gathering with ... ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  college was I going to land at in the US? I had a girlfriend then. We would ... to a 650-square foot 1-bedroom apartment, 8 blocks south, 3 blocks east ... . Out of nowhere about a mile to the finish, I hear the strains of a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  of this story, however, is that it took us twenty minutes to find a ... have to struggle to find a vending machine ever again. (Special thanks ... along with me to find another vending machine. We also had no idea where

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017