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  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... practice.   DormCon is the Dormitory Council! It's made up of an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  the new year offered.   WINTER Packed up my life in Boston ... and networked with senior leadership Picked up my second US Collegiate ... IRAs, and haven been reading up on the FIRE (financial independence

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  Happy CROMMMMBUS season (like christmas but.. not) On Halloween night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  wake up (I'm awake enough to concentrate and focus with a clear head) and ... things do come up and things take longer than I think and there's some room ... working through actual practice questions that have shown up in past exams

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write ... to me, which is my usual style. I definitely couldn't keep this up all ... her energy expended and nothing left but to give up and die, were we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and decided to walk to Trader Joe's to do my grocery shopping. There's two nearby, but the slightly closer one, at about 25 minutes' walk, is the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and ... , and large, so that you can lose yourself within them. You can look up ... has a lot of academic materials, like up-to-date copies of science

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  lectures, my professor brings up some interesting facts about the early ... between Newton and Leibniz has come up in our lectures, as well as the ... disprove calculus but argued that science did not stand up to rigorous

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  the best). Things have been looking up since then, and being ... a bus (I promise I’m not making this up). We had an extremely witty ... players come up with secret rules as the game continues and you have to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  cheer and their hands shot up. “What makes you happy?” Some children ... children we had seen earlier. A girl came up to me and asked me for my water ... coloring and opening up. I think about the blessings and privileges I’ve had

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  conversation with those persons would end up being about how we are twins, and we ... back) for about 5 seconds before coming up with this theory. My teammate ... . This ended up being totally fine, because office hours. 7) Clothes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  ’s community in ways his father, who ended up staying in the U.S., never could ... time they grow up they’ll be so good at it!” Spring of Emmanuel’s junior ... was moved up slightly higher than Emmanuel originally intended, to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  ended up migrating to random events with rapidly changing groups of people ... club. Up until noon the next day, the only “event” was breakfast in the ... various dorms. I ended up calling my parents four times that weekend

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up ... friends that I could couchsurf with. They shared what it was like to grow up ... , trying to learn some moves would almost end up with me breaking down in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  option. There is no need to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I ... into our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to December test scores for Regular Action. Q

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  Gmail inbox was already filling up with promises of “FREE FOOD” in return

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  minor I regret this, because 1) I ended up aborting this plan, and 2) it ... primary one being maybe thinking software engineering could be a career back-up ... worth” but ultimately, I would end up regretting not going to 100% of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  , beating up on myself just makes things worse. Sometimes the best thing to do ... . Last week, I had just taken my final exam and packed up all my belongings ... , early-stage start-ups, because I’m excited by the fast-paced environment

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  overwhelming that I essentially gave up and ranked the dorms by seemingly ... ended up in Maseeh and I liked it so much, I have stayed here all four ... at night because you have stayed up so late past dinner, your stomach

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

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  scaled a few walls, all very run of the mill. I found sisters I can wake up

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017