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• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting and exploring MIT, or who are concerned about changes to their academics ... looking forward to beginning her university studies this fall, so I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered ... CPW, so I have absolutely no clue how this event’s supposed to go, even

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but it's not as convenient as I think when I have to lug it around between

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet ... a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... .704,[/annotation] [annotation note="Intro to Videogame Theory"]CMS.300 ... being able to sit in a lecture hall again and walk from class to class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  1. Reply to random email asking for Tim volunteers. As soon as it ... wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn’t want me to succeed, no matter what platitudes might escape their lips. It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... [/annotation] agreed that this would be hard, but I really would like to graduate ... what MIT is like; you need to do something, but it is very hard, but you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because, no matter how smoothly you try to form your sentences, they invariably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  , because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college ... their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to ... Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people ... [annotation note = "residents of Random Hall, the soon-to-be last bastion of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  promise as we approach mid-March, I hope to have some more blog updates ... , I couldn't just tweet about it - I had to post it on the blog, too. Maybe one day personal robots will deliver valentines to our doors

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first trip to this campus which I think really changed the way I’ve viewed my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... moment, I felt so much panic. “Oh no. What am I going to say. I literally

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... . I didn’t go to career fairs or recruiting sessions; I didn’t upload my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a voucher sent to me by an upperclassmen. as i walk, a thought pops into my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Policy to RL circuits as you can see from the picture. With four or five ... most likely assigned reading for your classes that just add to the time out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT ... College Confidential forums. Now, don't go to these, but there are whole

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016