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• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  experiences for the academic standards i’m comfortable with? could i, perhaps ... realization is a blurred, murky grey. i first heard the term “fear of mis ... time and energy into ensuring that i make the best decisions. as seen in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  't been thinking about it. Literally, the thought hadn't crossed my mind for ... high school. Man, the passage of time is a scary thing). ... So you got into MIT. Congratulations!! Today is December 13, which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  the best things for the LGBT community is our location in Massachusetts ... post that it is too late for additional materials to go to the selection ... , and certainly being born in 1988 is not a problem for the Class of 2009

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  film for [annotation note='The film was announced in December of 2012 ... -progress for more than a century ever since L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful ... ” from Chicago conveys the raw frustration of feeling misunderstood, the desire for others to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS ... give out. Basically, all you have to do is go up while the ... introducing yourself to people. For some reason I've never felt the urge to be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  , happens for the best. That college decisions are about a good match. That ... your dream schools. You’ve studied hard for the SAT. You’ve done all the ... ’t need other people to recognize your worth for it to exist. And that is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  twists, hold it up with bobby pins and hope for the best. I have been known ... For the last few months, I've gone round campus compiling hair ... with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... tie my shoes in the morning. There is no EXCUSE!" I have no excuse. It ... 't officially registered for the marathon (there are a couple barriers to entry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  usually goes on for a while. this is my first time playing in the hall ... email is sent to the game runners, kah-ze is still 'alive' for all intents ... assassins. the premise is simple: everyone gets a randomized target, and your

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... papers from the original literature. Topics include basic technologies for ... for pre-health professions. Enrollment limited. Pros: I think biology is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  an advertisement for Fall Career Fair on the back page. That means an ... fairs. One nice part about this year's career fair is that we do get the ... semester, I set up an appointment at the GECD office for a résumé critique

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  is an absolute STEAL for when the T doesn't go where you need and you ... place, but what CJ Q. ‘23 said is also true. The best part of MIT is the ... One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  - and the best part is that I can accompany it with a story from my summer ... 's the first purple shirt I own, which is weird, since I like purple. The teacher lunch is okay. There isn't much pizza left by the time I arrive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  reason. sometimes other people are doing the manage-y things, which is ... for now" these are all things i associate with management, not the ... -y responsibilities between them. i think what matters more is that a team shares the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  /B/C/No Record. I think this is one of the best things about MIT since no other ... fun thing to do is go chairing down the tunnels! Cook for yourself for ... there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details ... for hours under the collapsed remains of a building until someone came ... , died in the earthquake. They were married for sixty-five years, and it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  from the masses purely for comic relief. But what drives us bloggers and ... balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to ... through our scientifically rigorous work, for the sole purpose of clearing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  :17-13:17 Chess is a Game Best Played with Nerf Guns Tired of the same old boring ... is the event for you! Come eat guacamole, southwest chile sauce, rice ... Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  is no time of year for morning people. Here's the big cup of coffee I ... class rings at the Bookstore ("Oh, the design is the same for every year ... I own). Here he is getting ready for bed: Here he is in the morning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008