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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days ... weather and put on some clothes. It's kind of mediocre outside right now; it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never ... 50% of the lyrics right. The movie was good and filled in the gaps of ... on the way it has been moving on—continuously, and whether or not I am

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  burnt coffee spilled on the stove. The end of a good science fiction story ... animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... personally better than one in front of whom I spilled vanilla ice cream on a ... who dreams with me of a blissful life on a boat in neutral waters where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is STUPID and BAD AT TIME MANAGEMENT, and no one comment on when this blog was ... still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , I would say that this was a year of trying new mediums and materials ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and ... drawing are my bread and butter mediums, so I ended up with a good amount of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and ... beavers emblazoned on the front. We point them in the direction of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... finished working on the McCormick article. In the interest of saving myself a ... of April Fools' Day, the cursor on all of the screens suddenly grew to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... the decision might have on my personal life. By the summer of 2017 ... Lobby 7 on a Friday evening, seeing one of the graduate students in my lab

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  good way--I didn’t often have to deal with discriminatory or questionable ... for presenting recommendations to MIT administration on the needs of ... ’ve never heard of before, or surprise you and excite you in ways you didn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  propelled by a sort of fanaticism much in the way that marathon runners are ... absurd amounts of money in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street and ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  series on scp, and binged a bunch of videos from brian jordan alvarez the ... up on my shoulders like clay dropping from the sky. by the end of ... , i did nothing. i spent all day on discord. i solved a handful of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  -oh-one-a/b" written in place of numbers. I got a 50% on that one. This past week I had ... be good! But if the rest of this blog hasn't made it abundantly clear ... students fear failure to some capacity. I'm scared of trying new things

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  lot of the reasons mentioned the content of the class in different ways ... understanding of something, etc. Reasons that mention the class as a good ... physics calculations. Lots of teamwork and designing. Also get to go on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Make a new group of friends. I was sure, at the time, that everyone I ... ? And it makes me reflect even more on my past. At the end of my freshman ... group meeting. I walked out of the room with a binder on what

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  consciousness, subjective stuff that isn't truth the way other parts of ... forth. You tend to rely on academics as a sort-of pride because you haven ... unhappiness and burnout. On college admissions specifically: of course it's easy

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite ... ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic ... to the new environment weren’t easy! I also received tons of emails of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  open, only good things will find their way in. Best of luck. I am proud ... fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because ... and eating midnight breakfasts together. So, on the occasion of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011