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  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  and neighbors into your life. Before you catch up on a popular TV show ... wish I’d done that more. Remain curious, even when life is hard. Attend ... back home. Your roots will continue to influence your life in college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born in Seoul. I’ve heard stories from…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  tired, mostly there aren’t too many psets there aren’t too many extracurricular committments there aren’t too many midterms there aren’t too many other, miscellaneous things to worry about but combine them…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  automatically assume an abundance of resources. An “Introduction to Life outside

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  Behold, the first sentences of four different unfinished summer blog posts:   —- On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the front while both my…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry mentors,…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT History Department…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  whose stories really changed my life. Every so often I google them to see ... reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed ... them because you’ve been accepted and your life is complete, or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i’ve had: last thursday, i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  Ambitious Adventures, a reality TV show following innovative cities around the U.S. and it’s entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I always liked the idea of reality TV – capturing…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  admissions (and life) is stupidly simple: work hard and be happy. How you ... your health and literally sucks the life out of you. Now, for once, you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. “Boston Tech,” as it was known then, was established in the Back Bay in 1865, but quickly ran out of room.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  Rory (calico) and her friend Mika (black cat) enjoying life: Life is getting better, final projects are complete, and I'm healthy and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time! Sleep Deprivation Time! I'm using so many exclamation points because I'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Macarrones con Queso, Tocino y Jalapeño para los Indigentes haciendo algo más grande que yo

  

  Si usted leyó mi blog anterior, sabe que he tenido un Octubre muy duro. Sin embargo, la efusión de las respuestas de estudiantes de escuela secundaria y universitaria que comparten…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM. One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under the Great Dome,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  graduate. In other words, this is for life. Fear not, though. After ... username flipfrog?" for the rest of your life. Often the best usernames

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  (Sorry if you were expecting to read more about MIT, but exploring outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things. First of all, IAP is MIT’s Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  Now that it’s break, I finally have time to sit down and actually write about everything that’s happened to me this semester. As I mentioned from my last blog, I…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014