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• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a ... the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  was always trying to process too many bits of life at once. It's a ... determined to get good grades and maintain a healthy social life, so I traded ... learned a lot, but didn't publish. Do I want to pursue more research? The

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  . And if you ever want to a chuckle, find a way to get the list of 101 ... .00). We had to make a game of Hangman using Python. Thankfully, my roommate ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... liked to read the question, circle the salient points, then find the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  Japanese IV and another Japanese class). It's also not difficult to find a ... were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members ... . What kind of student do you think makes a good match to MIT? MIT students ... a thesis for my program, and the profs - from day 1 - tend to scare

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  between floors, it's a chance for freshmen to visit all the floors and find ... works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  doorsurfing, but found that 8:08pm is not a prime time to find people to meander ... would to a joint blog post and write about our experiences, but never got ... logs. reading them over, they're such a throwback and deserve to be on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  missing (I need to find a scanner!). What's really neat about this shot ... visit a few weeks ago, I asked them to bring along my keyboards. As you ... artistically. For my Jazz History course, I've been listening to a lot of jazz

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese ... meet new people, and trying new things - the better I adjusted to a new ... interests, and connecting to a new support network when even MORE

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  because of that not only did I find the class to be a little bit easier I ... and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  . [annotation note="I got distracted for a full 20 minutes while trying to find ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time ... admissions team that I was trustworthy enough to a) run my own CP* events b) have my own channel to livestream to adMITs and c) host my own Q&A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a ... factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  close knit and tend to spend a lot of time with themselves. Burton ... figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... the last possible day), we were all set to have a Moonbounce BBQ IFAF

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... is related to your major; common choices are 2A-6 (comp sci), 2A-4

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways ... guidance.  While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow ... to have complete information. I know some feel like it may be a hassle

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  curds to the side of the pot so they cook slower. I use just a bit of ... proximity to H Mart, I've been making a lot of Asian recipes! It's convenient ... to try. Stage 1: Finding Recipes I've been obsessed with food You

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... when she was a new tour guide. The following summer when I went to talk ... that I wanted to go on a tour but didn't want the other people on the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010