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  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least, I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  for my life right now, I just lost a group stage match, but I still ... . Background (why the World Cup): I have been obsessed with the World Cup for the past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  this) I have already completed every requirement to graduate (except the swim test lol) For the first time, I have no mandatory soccer ... of my other 7 semesters, this semester is one that I can do whatever I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours ... student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  Let me preface this post by saying: I don't think I've figured out MIT quite yet. I think I've definitely gotten better at being an MIT student as time has gone on, but I definitely haven't gamed the system yet

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... . (Nerd status, I know, but confession: I was much more motivated by the ... that time, I wasn’t really considering MIT, because as my earlier

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can say with complete accuracy, that I am flying over Elmira, NY at 24

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... opportunities, or something completely random, I was always writing with you - the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  attempt at blogging—funnily enough, i only started this writing to apply to be a blogger. while i read it now and see [annotation note="emphasis on the many lol"]many things i would change,[/annotation]i think i

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior ... wasted. I feel this immense pressure to do it right, even though I don't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  a few weeks ago i asked my friend what kinds of people i should date ... that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn’t even noticed that i’d been enforcing the implicit constraint of only

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw ... , the cabinets, the walls, reinstalling hinges and handles... I watched

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

   I survived my first semester at MIT, and it was hella dope. I can say that. I own that.  There’s a lot I could say here, but I’ve been living my life at such a break-neck speed that I haven’t really processed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  D-3: I need a resume?! I have a busy week ahead--an 18.02 pset due ... and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and print out my badge before Friday. Career Fair runs from 10-4pm. I check

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  It's been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great ... felt like the longest week ever. I think it's mostly because we've been ... "] accurate[/caption] Like most of MIT, I've found myself with an abundance of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I have put some instructions below. Screw up. I stayed up super late – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  I took too many classes this semester. It was an accident. Usually ... . Typically at that level, there are some stressful weeks, but generally I feel like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  am, I have Astrophysics lecture, so I scurry from the Z-Center to the ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  column earlier today. One of whom I don't think I've ever met before. Does ... you don't know them? It's a very odd feeling. I'm still at the point where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005