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• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... , and they too weren't able to finish their (pretty much fully completed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool noodle I shift my weight to dodge the blow... but then I’m on the ground. I try to stand, but the second I bend my left leg a horrible pain shoots

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  turning out to be really hectic. I’ve felt pretty overwhelmed lately. I’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to ... vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... just talking about the blockchain. I wanted to actually code something ... extra hard drive space to others while still keeping everyone's files

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to CEOs ... to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  mattered. Friday, December 13, Early Action decision day, was to be “the day ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... self to stop worrying. Nor should I. Worry was inspiration. It’s why I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  "Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I ... nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You ... ,” and then proceeded to do so….   When I came to MIT as a super

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right ... compelling case for your inclusion among them, please feel free to submit an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan ... unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered, clearly oblivious to the day's events, continuing with his trademark

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  I just came back to my dorm room from all the graduation hooplah. I ... strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011