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  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  out to the lounge at one in the morning and see people working. It's not ... younger sister, who's stellar at the game. Probably the biggest reason is ... . Bend your knees, grip the racket correctly, make contact with the ball at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class ... best bet to be able to spend our last semester at MIT pursuing and ... professor is usually in his office Check back later that day at the time the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a lot. Or like, at all. It makes me feel really guilty. I've probably ... excited. Get Out go to at least 3 musicals Over break, I reignited my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you ... terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... , though, so I can go home early. Personally, I miss being at home because

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to ... high school, they wouldn't have even bat an eye at my existence. A ... , look at you!" Am I doing it? Is this blending in well enough? Distract

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to ... convenient way to keep track of the bajillion things that i want to get done at ... project with a team for the first time ever at hackMIT instead of just

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... right at the Green Building. (The tallest building on campus, that pillar

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  an effective teammate and a good leader - at least, that's what they ... requirements"]UPOP[/annotation] a lot for this, even though at some points during ... my third term UROPing at the Personal Robots lab in the Media Lab, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  help out a friend, also at recitation, who hasn't finished the lab yet ... linguistics has also picked up lunch at stata; we walk over to the ... in lecture. 1.57 - 2.54 pm: i have a UROP meeting at 3 in stata, so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  the workforce, or at once on entering it. The author ties this burnout ... ’m actually not interested in discussing feminism today. (well, at least not ... job they get further ahead and are more satisfied at their job

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  multipliers in the same breath, where i get read and write (at various levels of ... been one of those weeks when lots of things feel at risk of going ... at the other person and all the stars align and you understand how and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... hope to do with my life i realized at some point during the semester ... of feels like a fall from grace to move from being a token-woman-who-is-good-at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can feel my brain starting ... get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... 'm already aware of my miscalculation. I need at least three similar jackets

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  Tube channel SciShow. I'm car owner, or at least a car loan payer. And – dare I ... ? For now, I'm kind of just taking it one day or week or month at a time ... make a home in a place where, at one point, I didn't think I fit. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood ... a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will lead another external training with health providers at a non

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat ... real-feel temperature with wind chill factored in at the time was -22 ... Lim successfully fooled them. I actually watched the YouTube clip at

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... waves ever so nicely at me. You rock, Ava. Saif’s wife is in the front ... ’s been fully booked, and that the restaurant is unable to steal from us at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Berlin, Germany, and now am back at MIT to start a Ph.D. in Applied ... ), and I started photographing the moths at my home. By the end of high ... constant hum of insects at any time of the day or night, so perpetual that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  who want to start cooking at MIT. Motivation The most basic meal plan ... to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... .  Either way, that's a savings of at least $70 per week, or $1050 per

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  aren’t classes? Are you resilient? Will you fall apart at your first few ... essay. It’s conventional to put background or context information at the ... conclusions and new information at the end. Sometimes people put a powerful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012