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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff made the whole experience more bearable. But I wasn’t always a perfectionist, not until the past several years. Perfectionism and high

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  the semester am-I-right?”, then I will happily listen and give the ... time of the semester when [insert vague statement about being hosed].” I ... talk. If the small talk evolves into the classic yet conversationally

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  in Women's Independent Living Group (WILG).  These past few days, the ... dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has ... , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for ... /Portugal, and San Diego. my passport had expired, so Europe was off the table for ... us commit to going there. I wanted to go to the music festival Ultra

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... the spring semester has begun, I am quite late on this piece, but I ... this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  ;   i recently listened to the soundtrack of next to normal, this 2008 musical about a mother who struggles with bipolar disorder. one of the more ... the area, and then having a better experience, which is great. but some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays relentlessly and questioned everything about myself, whether the things I liked ... year, I stressed about grades, especially during the first quarter. I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby here. The name plate on our door has four slots, taken up by AWESOME

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  : Media Theories and Methods, the introductory course for the Comparative Media Studies graduate program. I really love the whole CMS / Media Lab ... , so I was super-excited with the opportunity to take CMS.790, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they have multiple courses. Well, the soup was yummy and the fish was good ... uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  I have a granola bar for lunch tomorrow? The grotesqueness of bananas browning in the pantry is practically palpable, even upstairs. As pika ... 't. 10:32 pm: I once tread water for ten minutes as part of the MIT swim

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  ... ...the first thing you think about is a certain protein used in recombinant DNA that makes C. elegans glow prettily in the lab. ---- 5/1 Update!: Premed Boulevard presents With One Test With one test, I kissed the A

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  because we were both in Beauty and the Beast last year and both as Silly ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a ... with Mystery Hunt/your team last year?" The team I joined (Palindrome

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The phrase "throw another shrimp on the barbie" was invented by the Australian Tourist Commission. They actually call shrimp "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  Kidding about the annual part. :-) Catching up with my blog comments ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the ... lunatic. This was the most rewarding thing ever to come from my big feet

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest spot of all time, but I did lift the title of an obscure yet underrated song for the entry title. As the most Humanities-oriented student at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005