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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  last week, i failed at a jigsaw puzzle and knot theory and some fears about returning

  

  This past week, I made the mistake of trying to have a Sunday morning ... around with my mom, sister, and girlfriend, none of us were surprised to ... 1000 piece puzzle might be a little bit of a stretch considering I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 31, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my ... particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box, because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  particularly notable. On the other hand, knowing all of the South Dakotans who ... interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... [/annotation] from South Dakota this year. Naturally, I put all of them on a mailing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... drafts and actually posting, and part of that requires not thinking so

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... wednesday of april, i could almost feel covid looming threateningly over me ... proved over the course of a week. but anyways, i saw a message that petey

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you ... a source of academic knowledge that might help me with my courses and ... I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming ... , no one heavily edits my blog posts, no one quality controls most of the ... yet, Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later, took me two weeks of work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... some of these things. Since freshman spring, I only ever taken as many ... I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... 'll say my spiel anyways. Freshman fall is kind of a shitshow. In the course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are ... Water War and for the Top of the Sponge roofdeck party. It's funny to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have ... gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a Revolutionary War recreation, was bound to be one of the more epic moments of my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  world. Hopefully, after four years of TFP, this hypothetical job will not entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... led me to MIT and my ultimate hatred of anything math-related, or if I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11, which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  because of something called ‘snow.’” That would, however, be the most false ... it multiple times before the day of this story. I was nine and grew up ... believed that one of the most important things that you could do was travel

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  As a child, I was a hugely voracious reader. I spent the majority of my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... have of the quality of the work done under his or her direction. Even ... possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I ... you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars, friends, classes, activities... but most of us are probably doing too much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019