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• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  country and the world. They all come to MIT, stay in Simmons hall, and get paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific ... year I had applied to be a counselor, but I landed the job of AD. My boss

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of ... students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability ... music!) The anonymous personage on the right did not wish to reveal his

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... me off guard. To me, this was fun. I get to spend every waking hour ... carrying on a conversation with my friends who are desperately trying not to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... 're interested, feel free to follow me - I'm @MikeyMIT. Meanwhile, I've been ... 'll try to post (or more likely, tweet) to share with you all. Today, this

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010