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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  given, is at least common enough. I hoped my intellect and my abilities ... on some level, which feels a bit strange. I guess, for most of my life ... balance. I wish to conduct myself in a mature manner at my workplace, for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  decision invaded my mind. The rational side of my mind was trying to convince ... doubt. My heart felt like I needed to go on the bike trip. It was a feeling that emerged from beneath the rational part of my brain. Therefore

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  satisfied enough to embark on the eight-hour grind. I realized the error in my ... in a more open way. Sound good? I’ll start. I remember starting my applications in September of my senior year after I’d gone to Cambridge for a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  my experience I found that people found a fraternity on the first day ... solution. I spent all of my time at a particular fraternity in hopes of ... my friends all got calls inviting them to a steak and lobster dinner. I

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Campus dorm during my freshman and sophomore years, but when some friends ... lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT ... obligation to leave my dorm. But when my friends started looking at houses and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... . I walked out of my room one day to discover a huge mess. Well, it may

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  't be afraid to speak up! Lena says, in reference to my previous entry ... 'm trying to connect it to my own experience. so we have two teachers for ap physics in my hs, mr. faraday (who teaches my class), and mrs. einstein (who

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... is no big deal in my book, and we enjoyed our milkshakes without major ... ), so I'm going to skip right along to my next piece of advice. 1

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  play instead, I also might have started packing my room before 11:30 PM that evening. I don't have to move out of my summer room next Sunday, but I spontaneously decided to come home this week because my beloved high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... Team is like and my thought process in deciding to join. So without

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  have a question and I hope you can give my your insight on it.. I'm going to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A.P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... my work is needed to get it done, and that I can depend on everyone to ... projects for a half hour or so. Then my teammate had class, leaving me alone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... thesis and antithesis (eg. a character grows or their world changes). my ... vacuous   ii. my high school world history class was a two

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  -defunct decisions portal was scarier than when I hit my chin on Kingda-Ka at Six Flags ... part, the depth of my knowledge. It was a school where people probably ... submitting my application at 11:59pm EST and getting a decision felt pretty

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question: what am I doing with my spare time? Sleeping? No, that's what I ... ? were met with uncomfortable stares and a long, awkward silence on my end

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... waste, I'm going to write this blog post as captions on photos. My first ... . It changed wholesale my image of China. I had always thought of China

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  's campus near the red line T stop and the admissions office. Enjoy my shitty ... latte and some pics of inside, along with my [annotation note ... : [carousel image1="123429" image2="123428" image3="123427" /] I followed up my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  [caption id="attachment_122847" align="alignnone" width="948"] my ... ---when I saw my friend typing rapidly on his computer it reminded me of hacking into the mainframe, so I spent about an hour configuring my VSCode

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  clock echoes loudly in my brain. Every day my feet move quickly, and my ... route to my destination. Turn right five feet ahead instead of fifteen ... process that’s running all the time in the back of my head. Part of the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... synthetic textile like polyester, while my mom was convinced that “of course

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025