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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  about finally getting more piercings to care about how silly I looked. I ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  . considering how obsessed with productivity i am, it took a while to be at peace ... getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to

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

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  project is bio-inspired sensing on fixed wings. We're trying to quantify how ... good food, and ask questions about how to become a real person in the ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , but sometimes, I feel like responding: Dear MIT, You know how much my graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  I'm forgetful when it comes to packing. Thanksgiving break, I forgot to pack extra pants. When I went home for my birthday, I remembered my ... new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... . "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full ... substitute for nutrition more often than not. So how do we remember to step

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  parents, and potentially anyone who knows how to use a search engine ... Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is ... first name. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect ... closed the written question. I had no idea how to solve it. I went to the ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  -renovation. so two years is a lot relative to how undergraduate culture propagates ... with holding up ec now. it worries me to think about how much work it ... initiatives, have put their focus on how to keep east campus afloat during

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... about how they would handle the fall, I decided to seriously consider ... also want to evaluate my choice based on how it will impact others and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  lot about how to make the next half of MIT feel better, and concluded ... part of it has been learning how to be an adult and take care of myself ... ” to go most days. Each time I did go I grumbled about how much of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  having difficulty choosing a major was "How do you know you want to do all ... Obviously I don't have to be good at these things, or even know how to do them (I don't know how to CAD), I just simply...have to like them and find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  and appreciation so, so much. I learned how to properly weightlift and ... , not shit myself. I think now I'm having to learn how to tackle other ... experience in Photoshop (thank you @ my old Tumblr for teaching me how to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... morning. I went to bed at around 1 am last night (or I guess this morning ... someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and ... a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... my last Registration Day, when all MIT students visit their advisors to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to myself, "Wow, you're so dumb. How do you even, like, get dressed in the morning when you can't understand how e-mail works?" Heck, I'm almost ready

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  on how best to age, cut, and cook beef. Amazing dinner. After dinner ... to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than how to support myself. A lot of these workshops make sexual assault ... natural pausing points to evaluate how you feel and whether you want to

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022