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• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  conference semi-finals. The cheerleaders got to stunt, yell, and throw free t ... as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the ... weasel out of ski lessons, since I don't own a pair of ski pants. So this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... fact good sense -- you really don't want someone careening around the lab ... on this project since November 2004... I can't believe we're almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  incoming frosh, remember, take it seriously and go look at places! I don't ... you don't get temped in them, but that comes later. Plus, most frosh who are interested in FSILGs don't have a hard time understanding why they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a ... , it simply won't show up at all (there will be "no record"). These ... , because you simply won't need to meet the same standards freshman fall that

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can’t ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... . (So I wasn’t too concerned when I discovered shortly afterward that the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  there's SO MUCH MEDIA OUT THERE and I don't mind sitting/driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked ... good vibes[/annotation] so I don't show up to the blogs empty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all ... couldn't have lasted, of course, and it didn't. As the graffitied Walt ... graffiti, but you can't be home again. from homestuck: TT: Please do not do

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... and chemical engineering); when we were teenagers, I obviously hadn’t ... intelligence. Why don’t you go for someone like ‘James’,” my brother Kyler once

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to say I don’t spend time feeling gratitude; what I mean is that I don’t ... immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  ="300"]  image i found online[/caption] I don't remember when I started ... mouth, not the outside, so I couldn't really hold a bags of frozen peas to ... . This didn't sting, but it still did nothing to make my sore heal faster

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it ... don’t experience imposter syndrome: I am glad, because it is more ... syndrome. I’ve just sort of, grown around this pest I can’t get rid of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... is it good enough? Am I good enough? I don’t know the answer to that

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  lot i don't really have anything to complain about right now, because i ... doing history research or whatever. but right now blogging isn't doing that because first, i don't feel bad right now. like, at all, i guess

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  Day one, again. Campus is different than before. The doors don't ... .701), even though I learned it during my time away from MIT. I didn't think my ... again. But it probably doesn't fit in my schedule, and it doesn't fulfill

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  some things that i've taken away from this summer. these things aren't ... "productive". feeling guilty about not being productive isn't healthy and is probably an instinct instilled by our capitalistic society don't run

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is ... interface didn't scale for different phone models, so when I showed it off on ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  're done.” Don’t think of all the ways you could have made the application ... life the way you did before you wrote your first college essay. Don't ... dissuaded by teachers, relatives, and friends. It happens. Just don't let them

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an ... slide. Prof: You didn't bold it! I don't read bullets that aren't bolded ... that you don't hear about. Nearly every major has them and they give you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  I won't keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT ... Weekend: do Latino parents feel welcome at MIT? I won't keep you in suspense for that question either, I don't know the answer. I would sure hope

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014