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  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

    I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... string together enough coherent sentences for much blogging.  Now it’s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  . It seems that the distinction between "scholastic" and "non ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... belong, but don't stress out over it. McGreggor and I also brainstormed a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin ... a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We ... do it but the universe explodes afterwards. Conan: Big whoop. Small

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  -disfunctional and the beds were twin extra long just like my old dorm room. Our ... restaurant was how we spent 7.89% of our trip. Come on, we're MIT students ... Pizza." Now I'm not sure if it's because of the color or because of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to Feminist Thought. Each reading is around 30 pages long and takes ... Harvard PHIL 179 lecture. Luckily, it’s a lot of fun, a “college classic” of ... fascinating perspective and welcomes student input. It’s quite an egalitarian

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get ... on how important it is to rest. It's a nice change of environment and ... haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  even how to write the Greek letters that filled the board. Let’s say ... all, they probably would be willing to teach you how to do those things, too. It’s a very collaborative environment with seemingly endless

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  glamorous alchemy.) How many applications do you read in a day? Well, it depends on the day. How long do you spend reading each app? Well, it depends ... Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how impressive the New York skyline was until I was looking at it again. The pizza ... final version of the magazine we worked on this semester! It took several

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  't have a dining plan, so it's up to the residents to feed ourselves ... through being the chef. It's the chef's job to 1. Come up with a menu, which ... whole house, places the online order, and has it all delivered to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  requesting to join - it's how Emma and Michael (the admins for the facebook ... " means. It definitively does not mean that we lower the bar for anyone. But ... (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  of Mocha Show the other day and could only marvel at how fulfilling it ... students ever again, but god, do i crave it; the sheer liberation of dancing ... frat gave us fried Oreos, which slapped. oh frats, how i miss you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  hellfire on about how you should never ever use Wikipedia as an academic ... fun. If you've known me long enough, there's probably been a time where ... found out about this game, I ended up playing it for three whole hours

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  to use this particular resource, it will matter very little in the long ... the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan ... from all this, it’s that goodbyes are hard- period. [caption id ... hadn’t had in a long time. However, boba tea (or any other form of cold

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  journalist.” Today, another twist: It wasn’t a mental health issue, and I’m no ... straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I ... it’s all in your head… And overnight, you learn that it’s “sleep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building ... has been sitting largely in its tote bag on my shelf because I wanted to share my favorite places at MIT with you. Whether it be fairly common

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  of turn control. How heavy is it? Too heavy. 4.66 pounds. (Usually ... /Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear ... was built for a cruising airspeed of about 70 mph, but it still took the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  stories about my living group that start with “back in my day…”—it's how ... . I believe it qualifies the company for the “Best Intern Recruitment ... field. One year later, Automobili Lamborghini proudly announces its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  that doesn’t clearly help much now does it? And all I wanted my first ... . It only had three questions:  On a scale of 1-5, how supportive ... though it'll probably be a bit different during the performance for any

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022