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Blog / Challenges
bday burnout no more spiders please
Some numbers from this semester: Academic week: 5 Age: 19.0 Times I’ve cried over classes: 2 (surprisingly) Smoothies made: 12 COVID tests taken: 11 Times I’ve been locked out: 3 (Unique) cats… -
Blog / About Decisions
Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm
“His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti. He’s nervous about opening the MIT decisions portal already.” Eminem About 2 separate… -
Blog / MIT Life
hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week
I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and…it sure has been A Week™. Freshmen aren’t invited back to campus this semester, but I’m renting an… -
Blog / MIT Life
On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.
What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know with certainty… -
Blog / Challenges
short term / long term on growth and learning
't feel the same. Blogger cruft Laura N. recently did me the gracious and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D
’s got this sort of anxious off-kilter rock n’ roll feel. I can’t really -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat
shopbot in N52. The design is from our seal, which is painted outside B3rd -
Blog / Life after MIT
After Graduating From beyond the veil :O
up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience
debating ketchup’s place in mac ‘n cheese. We finally had friends. We got out -
Blog / MIT Life
Little things that remind me im not home
"] photo: Sv7n, from wikipedia commons, cc by 3[/caption] Using toilet paper -
Blog / Internships & Externships
Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5
Museum"]Building N51,[/annotation] a huge space with all sorts of tools -
Blog / Challenges
A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths
very v e r y l o n g d a y s. And while leaving my dorm at 8:30 every -
Blog / Events
Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange
I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn’t really something… -
Blog / Admissions
I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!
My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life. I bought my computer… -
Blog / Academics & Research
A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?
Something unexpected has happened with my classes this semester. Up until this point, my homework has been pretty predictable: read some lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French
Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.
MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Trip Report: ISEF 2016
Indian River Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Florida Charles N -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them
You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the…