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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to ... far. It will mean a lot to him/her now, and it will mean a lot to you in ... who have come to college in a long-distance relationship with someone

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  a vacation to the moon in a homemade rocket in A Grand Day Out with ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... 697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... tasted. I was on a mountain in western Colorado (I’d tried using paper ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  have to find a spring, creek, or river to work with. As you can see from ... development--a road makes it easier to transport materials, which in turn makes ... developing infrastructure in this area is a monumental task to begin with. All

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  year's Championship team to find out more about playing a varsity sport at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... . Many students struggle to find time to sleep without playing a varsity

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  you up to 1 email a day until you find “unsubscribe.” You will want a ... signals to my body. Dangerously low. Lower. Gone. Time to find a charging ... obstacle to attain victory in a glorious prank war. And a friend who listened

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... in MIT that night. I was going to miss a connecting flight, figured I ... the administration and complaints and choosing a place to live in, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... invested in a range of questions, and I want to work on them all right now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... dawned on me that in order to use Android Device Manager, I'd have to log in to a someone else's phone. But because I have two

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... ! It only applies to people who live in dining halls, though, and it's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  to fix it. Here’s a list of things that I thought I’d done in the fall ... to exist, especially when doing a level of work that I used to complete ... how I felt like I wasn’t pushing myself the way I used to in high school

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... friend, to hating this fucking place and still somehow finding a kind of ... being unafraid to be a fool in public with me. It’s been a good run here

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as ... prelude to the Hunt, Palindrome released Star Rats a month in advance, to ... a week or so in advance. And this'd lead to some fun speculation about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... electricity, no motors. It's engineered to simply "fall" down a ramp in a ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017