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• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... more honestly, probably won't get one because I don't have the time ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... on Campus Preview Weekend. Who knew that the years I spent wasting away ... this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  i have no less than three different drafts for blog posts stewing ... put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i ... between all the work. this semester, i think i've become a grown up kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I ... . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... narratives. I’ve seen so many YouTube coming outs met by a parent’s loving

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game studio...connecting the dots yet? i actually had a wild ride with e3 because i realized in may that i could actually attend this year, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Hello Internet! I'm briefly poking my head into the blogosphere as a respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about eventually...). But since I don't really have anything interesting to say about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who is still the smartest person I know, and who I wouldn’t be here without: My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  seems like I haven't had the time this semester to sit and think about the relationship we've weaved, but now that I am free, it all comes rushing to me ... . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other ... MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  On September 11, 2001, I had just begun my junior year. I was running ... after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their ... into the World Trade Center," Brian quietly informed me. Only then did I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer. Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... summer started, I had planned to become a neurologist. I knew a lot about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  I know, long time no see. My last entry was almost exactly four ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... finals week rolled around, I was desperate to be done. I stumbled through 1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  I got an e-mail the other day from a deferred applicant, who said ... the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... ". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  your parents let you? I began thinking about these questions after I met ... valid issue; I have known many people who stifled their educational ... , for college. I have also known many students, for fear of leaving their

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  as follows: I agree. Completely. This semester, I'm taking five classes: (1) 5.13 - Organic Chemistry II: I'm one of those weirdos that actually likes organic chemistry - and not just because I like drawing little

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of classes burning the midnight oil and wishing I'd worked harder over weekends

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  probably never happen. Even more unfortunately, I am a ridiculously heavy ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... .) I've been taking the 8-9AM hour at desk every weekday morning for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  I took my first final today: 8.022, Electricity & Magnetism with Theory. It wasn't a bad class, all told. Circuits are pretty cool, and I ... .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008