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• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility ... this impulse might actually be doing me more harm than good, and that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation note="like me!"]spring[/annotation] submitted their dorm preferences. The actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I ... disappointed by the Artemis Fowl movie [annotation note="still mad about this. I ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  the classes I took the previous three semesters, complete with a color coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  now. It is nearing the end of November; the first round of applications have gone in (early action date was November 1st); the last ... them in one weekend just before the Jan. 1 deadline) (but would not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?” More often than not, the actual physics causes some form of apocalyptic

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  all about my life not that long ago. In fact, the time between my last post and this one is really not that much longer than the time between my ... on the blogs’ 10th birthday festivities. And while I hardly have any

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy ... people across the continents are actually celebrating is not an event which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  on their psets due the next morning, crack a bad joke or two (and when we're on a roll, even the occasional good one), put on long stretches ... our two-hour set? What if we both sounded like bumbling idiots on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla ... quite good, and I have earned a complete scholarship for attending the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision ... knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  title this blog, so many ways to sound truly, deeply weird. But the urge ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... day. This is particularly useful when the rest of college is… not super

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  year old. So I'll try to use only the ten hundred most used words to explain the big ideas from classes I liked! [annotation note="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... to the MIT Class of 2028, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine ... Infinite's new little sister MIT Gala. This year, the theme of the magazine ... think someone on the board called it Mortal Shell, which I thought was

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder ... wondering why I decided to take the last semester off. There's much to unpack ... !']rose-colored glasses[/annotation]have been put on me, leaving me to see the world with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3.091[/annotation] and [annotation note="Introductory Biology. Satisfies the Biology ... first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022