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  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life!!,” I’ve finally settled on an academic path that I’ll likely stick with! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation &

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  these women had no obvious dealbreakers that I knew of, so I asked him why he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It ... response was No." Obviously, I don't know for sure if this is the true

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really ... never will I force myself to  live that way again. Or so I said.   I feel like I have not run in days like I haven’t slept I feel like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... things.[/annotation] I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  . Today, I hung out with some friends from high school. We all noticed that we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my friend had said earlier tonight. "You seem happier." I am. Words cannot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... need a PhD, how often will I have to move, are there any jobs available ... unfortunate series of events, what I want to be has always been pretty clear

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  ;   кошка кошка + кошка собака   I’ve decided to try an experiment: every two weeks I’ll post an informal blog post with a riddle or a ... tweets. While I love the revision that goes into most of my blog posts, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on ... free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test ... inconsolable horror at the sight of more Arabic numerals than I've seen since the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  First let me say that I am touched that Sam dedicated his BAREFOOT CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him, judging by how many times I heard that "good neighbor policy" story

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 ... of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living group has a piano keyboard, and I’ve downloaded MuseScore. It’s my first

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  by k.c. green)[/caption] I don't hate math, but I've never ... something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... , I've decided to dedicate my undergraduate studies towards artificial

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  Hello 2024s. I'm about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted to tell you some things before I go: Exactly two years ago, I was ... come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  This semester has been weird for me. On one side I am for all intents and purposes I am a junior, a 2020. I will not be graduating until 2020 ... classmates are 2020. On the other hand I am a senior. My oldest friends walked

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy to DO things, but writing is difficult. So, I have decided to write ... of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  I often feel inspired when I least expect to. When I do feel inspired, I mean really inspired, I sit on my bed and close my eyes. I let my mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... 't make it, but I'm sure with all the pictures everyone took that there will

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025