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  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  . You can also see this image gallery for some behind-the-scenes photos as you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  for, what, a month and a half now? it's been two weeks since my last ... as in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, so this year i ... 'm grateful for. splash happened the weekend before the last one, like pretty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  rebellious for staying up so late, although I do not know who I was rebelling ... , very fucking happy, and for [annotation note="the election has been ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  Happy November! Two days ago, it snowed for the first time this fall in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... England snowfall surprised me. I was not prepared for how long the snowy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to ... who made this, but thank you, and thank you to my friend Eren for ... excited for my friends, but didn't think I would personally get one. Then, I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  , that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went ... attention poured into a single thing. i helped run a program for two thousand ... the only times i went outside were for getting food or getting tested

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... to do, whether it’s a chore around the house or something for work. So ... start making time, even if it’s literally just ten minutes, for me. Life

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  family. Then I flew back to campus for three weeks of IAP, which I filled ... enough!): Stayed in bed staring at the ceiling, thinking about life, for ... Actually read books! Ones I hadn't read before! Coded for fun, in languages

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no ... , ethically, and emotionally. As a cofounder of FIRST, he was known for bringing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one ... after class. Here's attempt number one, for [annotation note="it's the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  your core values. For example, picking a restaurant is probably not the ... on this one. I have really bad travel luck, and I need to plan for ... from a tour bus, locked myself in a bus bathroom for 10 minutes…The list

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the monsters in our closet ready to jump out at us. If you’re feeling like ... . You are very brave for doing so!   But if you get sad, let yourself

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions ... of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations ... students, reading their applications and interviewing them for the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for ... Barker Library to write some field notes for my Global Health &

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these ... than I asked for. However, looking back, I could not be happier that I ... various techniques we used. By the end, when I was reviewing for the final

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... education is perfect for the modern word. With the ability to outsource ... . Now, machines can perform calculus operations for us, but it takes a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it ... much time with my friends as possible before 1) we get too busy for each ... for this semester, lots of research and coursework that i'm genuinely

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?" essay 4:37 The "what do ... Advice for last year's prompts (which are the same as this year's) from our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  food; order more Wait for more food to come; browse memes They forgot the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear ... everywhere, without ever having to focus. Marshall McLuhan * * * * * for more

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017