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  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  their respective universities slaved away we at MIT got up late, ate ... how you're feeling right now. Senior year is hard. I know that to be a ... year is rough enough. But I got through it okay, and you will too

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  love about MIT lab classes is the free lab goggles. Today we had a choice ... whole "one boy's summer @ mit . edu" thing doesn't really work anymore. If ... to alter his curriculum from 10.40, which is thermo at the graduate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... years. However, I’m sure not everyone is ok with this wily-nily method of ... in Maseeh. Note: This is not meant to be the definitive guide to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  don’t experience imposter syndrome: I am glad, because it is more ... , and [annotation note="and if you believe otherwise that is just the ... MIT. Fact: There are plenty of people who are “ahead” of me in math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the environment is overly competitive -- MIT is probably one of the most ... worried about my decision to go to MIT. Of course they were proud of me, as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  . And the program is funded by MIT—airfare, lodging, metro transportation ... last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars ... . JSF is an IAP program sponsored by the French department for students

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast interviews. in the third episode, darryl, the interviewee, is an ex-convict who ... says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came ... MIT always, but I do now. No place is an ideal match, but I guess I ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  maseeh dining because people on mit confessions have been claiming it ... questions, but the conversation is good anyway. towards the end of the chat, K ... you feel ANNOYED because one of the arrangements is being changed mid

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... . ----- After 5+ years at MIT Admissions, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of mileage

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... decided that MIT was the place for me, I spent my weekend traversing the ... scenery of all my future MIT dreams was suddenly… different. There was a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  time here at MIT. So like any good Type A personality, I've made a list ... have to leave the house to carpe diem. Help make MIT a better place ... Boston area. Turns out there's a MIT alum who works as a bartender at

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank from the firehose this month. This post is about that, and it has a happy ending. The past is a lesson learned. I share it with you... I can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  the burgers are tasty. > "The Fox" is playing on the speakers. Loudly ... is an amazing mural on the wall of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction ... 've learned since coming here, it's that sleep is very, very, VERY valuable to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... OF MY LIFE. 1c) A quick dinner is followed by MITSO rehearsal. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making ... study Marketing here at MIT, as well as cross-register for art classes at ... is an experienced archer - and no, I'm not talking about the FX

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  ? Not enough at all? Maybe it is time for proud MIT nerds to reclaim the ... of my very successful female engineer friends. She is a highly ... and other areas...nerds? “ Because I work at MIT and I have come to

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT ... consent) arrived at 9:00 and made pleasant conversation with me about MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  probably majoring in 6-1 and 7 who lives in Next House – my wing is either 3W ... ! Prologue January 16, 2023 04:15 [0 miles from home] There is absolutely no ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  to influence my friends’ decisions? when is it within my right to do so ... choice that i think is obviously wrong?” in other words, most of my ... premises is that we can only control ourselves; external factors like other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022