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• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  through a phase of eating ancient grains -- or I tried to, but they take ... . Dining hall food is not my thing, but on the advice of a fourth year in my ... , choosing two of three very good things is not the worst problem to have. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... weren't running regularly due to the 3 ft tall piles of snow on ... Craigie on Main, so I got to learn about the different types of Sherry and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  was more or less right. You’d expect an art major to be making a lot of ... and design, which is what i'm planning on majoring in."]Course 4 ... Technology” is a delicate one, not an impossible one. I’m still holding on to

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  friends on their way to interviews with some of the world's biggest banks ... article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to ... there's tremendous economic pressure to suck you away from what is perhaps

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  march 10th, i was trying to learn 1612 by vulfpeck, which is as simple as ... books i intended on finishing with me to campus (these three among them ... , if only because i have a limited number of things to occupy my time

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... . how to be on top of your email. i've learned that mit runs on email, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  , which always has a way of making me feel important… In any case, MIT is ... comprised of five to eight people, and teams compete based on the average ... Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  goals of trying to achieve a better understanding of human learning in ... options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which ... to apply for one of these awards, just write that you are applying for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like ... to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and ... persistently strive to do better.[/annotation]And, in one way or another, I did ... &D podcast which I don't listen to much of anymore. I’ve listened through this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  snatch dates on Tinder or join clubs or even just go to a single Queer West ... that I was either destined to be celibate or just not a fan of apps ... ? Was it just a creative decision or is he trying to tell me I’m worth

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  to do. However, it is not the kind of thing that I enjoy for weeks at a ... and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on the other end I ... number of reasons I feel like my ability to balance work/school with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  [annotation note="which is just an empty box with books piled on top of it ... comfort of my bed. Amber's shoes under my desk, which she neglected to put ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... course 2, and switching to something such as 6-2, which is Electrical ... up, though? It is kind of like if I were to be climbing a mountain, and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  (thing is true) but why? I go to MIT 100% (or so I've been told) I get these ... long time to realize that drinking 80 oz. of tea per day is still ... bananas I'm going to assume the majority of "false" cases (which occur 39

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  through teaching, organizing events, or just listening to a friend on a hard ... to go out of my way to perform these types of kindnesses. This is not ... neuroscientists, or provokes a little introspection. But the danger of MBTI is that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of ... viewed on Thursday or Friday nights. A typically-MIT* trajectory of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... , but I have to rest well on weekends. If there is a test the next day ... or fewer hours of sleep, I have to get 7+ hours the next night. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  . Everyone is going to have an opinion on your choice of topic, or your tone ... substantial amount of college essays, but I have a couple things to say on the subject (I myself wrote around 11.5, some of which never went to ink), so I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006