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  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e ... Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different ... , the writing of which resembles pulling teeth but creates a satisfying

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and requested a second night at this hotel. Then maybe I could rotate between the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston ... 's blogs that overanalyze the heck out of everything."]contemplate anything

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... mainly in the Green Building, the tallest building on campus, and our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might ... feel like a wound that will never heal.   the problem— grief ... up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the ... decided that I would absolutely lose my mind staying inside all the time ... my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  May. the rules for adding to this playlist were very limited—i mainly ... , [annotation note = "ah, the irony"]3/14/20,[/annotation] i have 123 songs. some ... Out by T.I. — this was the first Mocha Moves audition piece and thus the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  Boston Public Library - Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the ... ’t believe that 3 whole semesters have come and gone and the fourth is almost

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I ... them is checked out at the library ^^;       (nf = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  between the semesters to relax, recharge, recoup, and reflect*. But somehow ... , which, despite the excitement and adventures, has wrought havoc on my personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took ... .219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  From the MIT Lit dept's Spring 2014 course catalog: 21L.705 (Major ... þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon… Those are the first words of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... running experiments or doing work, you're also good at expressing the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of ... 've been making a robot!. As the hyperlink implies, I've been participating

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  . This past weekend, I attended the Founder's Reception and Kickoff Event ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  better approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  , began exercising on a daily basis, and even quit pulling the pigtails of that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and cleaned the toilet once a week (although this was helped by the fact we were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I ... degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008