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• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  the graders and probably (hopefully) ended up getting LOL points for my ... eternity of restless, test-less days. I woke up at 7 AM. A marvelous savoring ... is at my doorstep. I should walk over it, because that's what most

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  think about that for a minute. (When you're done laughing at how ... Kevin: Kevin said: what does the admissions office look for in ... perfect score. And that’s not what I mean at all. If you’re stressing over

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  .03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back ... mad at me because my kindergarden teacher wanted to talk to her, and she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional developments that await him. His height at birth was six feet, three inches, and ... nursery room for other newborns. He saw twenty or thirty other boys and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  hobbies, what you do for fun outside of class, what your advisor should know ... –famous for our beautiful beaches and perfect weather, but also for our unique culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  't looking great for Washlava at this point. vii. Examination of compound ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  store was empty, except for the owner and his friend, who looked at us ... tuned. The concert started at 8. We stood RIGHT at the front (well ... were right at the front with us (my friend could count himself among

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  world for four whole years.  It’s still on point, and you should go read ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... , I’ve found that timing is everything.  Being in the right place, at

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  every nerd club at my school, but I was still a stupid teen. Don’t be a ... getting on a skateboard again for the next six years. It wasn’t until a ... Discord server for recommendations, I headed over to Orchard Skateshop. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached ... cramped for elbow space. It was extra sweet when we started passing rivers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  questions about student life and academics, at least for the MITES and WTP ... Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  that that kind of talk, that kind of pressure, is OK especially for ... are very real. Truth is, we're at MIT, and we'd all do better if we ... the "college experience". In order to be fun at parties. I always hated

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... , although I guess I've called it that sometimes too, for absolute clarity. It ... at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  living with my friends than living at home. I'm not lonely at all, for one ... 've formed while at MIT, and because dance continues to be a fun way for me to ... /Chinese courses, so revisiting it for such a different purpose was pretty strange

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  at the same time i struggle to put my experiences out in the world for ... stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen. "I can't publish this," I think, "I can't even look at it." I close the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  yes, I'm still doing really well for where I'm at. But I can't help but ... excitement for what's really happening. Now, when I write, it feels emptier and ... even post anything at all because that spark that was once there is now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  all of those at the forefront of my mind for three straight nights of ... to be done for comedy, or to emphasize the sad; rather, there is an ... spring, briefly joined Next Act, a show performed in Next House for CPW

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  leaves me with English I, II, and IV at the end of my junior year (For ... It's time for another Questions Omnibus... Mike wrote (re: MIT ... for Early Action because the post office is messed up currently. I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to be calling. At the time, I was feeling incredibly stressed and lost in ... focus on three technicals at once. I want to commit to never again taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... (very, very important) just the fact that you’re not at home anymore and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021