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• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  If indeed I post this on time, as of February 9th, 2021, I’ll be ... around the desert, drinking up the sight of [annotation note="the tall ... kid, either. College is itself a sort of bridge, with trappings of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8.021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... , well, "soft" sounds like "soph." IT'S SO GREAT. Living with six of my ... four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  of the only nearby places open until 11:00 PM. This place is freakin ... one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... accidentally made this extra cup of coffee, and you order coffee a lot so I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because ... host of other things i’m anxious about, many of which aren’t even my own ... about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... increasingly became one of few Black/Puerto Rican students in those classes ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... !!), but if you don’t then I hope this post sufficiently informs you of our

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  . Something feels different for me—among the usual buzz of activity ... feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from ... .320 (Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems) and 7.18 (Topics in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold ... a lot of work that was half done but due later that day. The buses

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... got into Reddit (bad idea at this time of semester), especially r

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... sent me. (It was something short, along the lines of "Congratulations!"). If you're always nervously unpatient about these sorts of things, like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if ... is an amazing mural on the wall of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... very different from leading a team of engineers in a technical project

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... position right now to a lot of people: my past teachers, my professors, my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  perfect, considering it's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about ... filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011