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• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on ... I think the advice that has helped me the most is the advice from ... learn this balancing act. Focus on it early.   Andres A. '17 Try to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the bottom of every blog ... News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends on Facebook. Everybody ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us ... believes in my ability to improve, despite my chronic inability to focus on ... parents dropped you on the head as a baby. Now picture that resentment

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  groups on the recitation problems, because well...I need help in 18 ... pictures of teddy bears on them that said "Hug me, I donated blood today" but ... put those new skills to work just last night, when I helped turn (turn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  openings, film screenings… the list goes on! [annotation note="MIT School of ... an on-campus program called MIT Arts Scholars, we get exclusive access ... ] on practices of composition and choreography to create dynamic

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  Cambridge and Boston. MIT and Boston people are following the news on the ... It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was ... on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  , Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on ... seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO ... ADMISSION DECISIONS AT 10:37 PM TODAY! URAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!" In doing so, you may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  battles, just on different fronts. Today, I am not mincing my words. Even ... discourse is complicit with the state of things as they are today!  On the ... attention to their tendencies and mindsets. You'll realize a lot of us live on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  to ever happen. The great thing about living on Boylston Street this ... need to hop on (especially helpful when you are in places that are not ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  though the supervisors provide reports where they predict how you'll do on ... for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... each paper and choose 5 questions to answer on each one. What this means

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  ="Support Communities For First-Years"]SCUFFY,[/annotation] [annotation note="Exploring ... of a virtual [annotation note="residential exploration, usually what ... were placed in dorms based on a ranking form they filled out. From Aug 31

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  I’m finding myself searching for MIT news. The articles that I found ... chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... mind is on the eighth dimension MIT Mathematics Professor David Vogan and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  summer. I hopped on the bike with the following points in mind: The last ... ridden a bike exactly twice: once on an eighth grade field trip (I lost ... Mercedes, two mountain bikes mounted on the back. The trail went eight miles

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  , nonetheless help govern and organize our lives. Combine that fascination with ... on Monday and Friday, since that leaves me with a solid four-hour block ... for getting lunch, catching up on email, or working on a p-set. I mostly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... going great. There was an event for freshmen going on that day, so it ... , chatting with the organization leaders there and taking free items from the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  seniors who, like me have lived on Maseeh 2 for all four years and as a ... the swim team lived there when I was an incoming freshman. On my ... living here too.” On the stereotypes of Maseeh: “A stereotype that I hear

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  't ready to live on my own; plus I had marching band commitments, which is ... the internship program. I filled out my application on time (just ... a list of a few students who had emailed, and my name was on the list

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  old person." On Saturday the Puzzle Club ran an event where we solved ... Club worked on a P&A issue was last semester. Miscommunication meant ... hours, so we needed more food than I anticipated anyway. On Sunday night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  having no one to idly chat with. I talk to people on a daily basis at work ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... are the most powerful incentives, are what makes life worth living. also

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  sell on the let’s-do-something-besides-work front. Anyways, the problem ... shirt from someone else and we’re on our merry way. … and in true MIT ... … oo la la. Sarah: can I have a copy of reverse transcriptase with that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009