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• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  how they have improved the lives of others in their community. And it’s ... dialogue about the process and how it is practiced. The real test will come ... it is a very strong report that will help prospective students and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  “that is valued as a physical object above and beyond its value as a ... compared to the $500 signed first edition. The 500-fold increase is worth it ... ,500+ Hemingway copy (one of 300 of a limited edition). Why, on the other hand, does

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  it boot up on the screen. i liked how tangible it felt. over winter ... were going on so many long drives over break that i thought it'd be good ... the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  everything.  But once you’re here, it doesn’t matter how smart you are or what ... be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you to decide and no one can tell you otherwise.  Anyways, it’s great to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... , because it is okay, and things will be okay, but it's hard to know things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  many months. I figure that it might be insightful to those of you faced ... to make.   March to June I'll admit it - when we first got ... May. Spoiler alert, we were not back by May. At some point in April, it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  long it takes. So while, yes, PNR shall be missed in the coming ... . Before I knew it, I was “pset-ing” or [annotation note ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently ... something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will ... even have to be at MIT to do it.  Art of Problem Solving My

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... Things pick up pace real quick once the semester starts. At times, it ... , responsibilities, meetings, applications. The grind never stops, and it comes at you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Transition Team, and I've been thinking about it ever since. What does it mean ... want it to be. The community's physical space also plays a role in how ... If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... the Charles River. As always, it's beautiful. Biking over the Charles ... to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  from CAST with a video that featured past cross-disciplinary classes. It ... closing,” my advisor said and emphasized that it would be in my best ... best job advertising the wealth of its resources, and the pandemic

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  freezing. All it ever does is sleet and snow. All this to say, I have been ... amalgamation of everything and nothing all at once. It is also worth nothing ... fully realized how dominated the city is by MIT until a large fraction of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to ... able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but ... that he had not even been allowed to know who it was. Exactly one blogger

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a good one, but believe me it’s just a lucky guess! (Read: I’m not a ... roommate, my floor’s tradition dictated that it was my responsibility to bake

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool place, despite the heat. I really like how much nature is accessible there ... shaped though it may be (there are...fourteen corners in my room, but it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  standards? Also, why does it take me an hour to do winged eyeliner? Worry ... more about how to enact change—not in some grandiose, ego-fueled "I want to leave a legacy" sense, but how to do my best to leave the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  .  It was a great opportunity to see some wonderful speakers, connect with ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... getting the chance to learn more about how other female engineers dealt with

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and everything... don't ask"]boil it.[/annotation] I'm not confident that I knew how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022