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  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long ... sounds really cool. chris and i went strawberry picking over the summer and ... stressful, at the same time. i'm taking 48 units this semester, and when i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... angsty kid back then. I think the most common piece of college app ... and stay clear of the clutches of procrastination.  Well… I did start

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  the same, where my Friday through Sunday is filled with [annotation note="6.009 is Fundamentals of Python. It's usually the second or third ... 're basically psets, we just call them labs) that take the average individual

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... 'll admit I was a bit taken aback by his reply. While I was gathering up the courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  profits to charity, posting thoughtful weekly vlogs — the list goes on. I ... conscious life. I stumbled into the Green brothers’ corner of the internet ... first online community. As members of the Awesome Socks Club, my friends

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... someone steal the pedals off my bicycle Had ten other appointments with the VA Had a few other problems I’d rather not share here Struggled

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had brewed jasmine tea at the [annotation note="My very cool independent living ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  ...[/caption] “Come on, dude, just try some. All the smart kids are reading it ... that as soon as my eyes opened and fell upon the words “Columba livia ... nonfiction book, doesn’t get you hooked as the others do – that it doesn’t tell

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... the part i have yet to finish, and as a result i am usually discontent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  focus on the class because you feel BURNOUT. you think about how you somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... freshman year. you feel SURPRISE upon trying the food and realizing that it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  part of why I chose my company this summer was because it paid the highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... -impact field. Artificial intelligence may help build the world I want to live

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of ... immensely this spring. More so than past semesters, not only because of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note="The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  summer season 3."]Season 3[/annotation] house in Virginia to the Season 4 house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2 ... trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ... that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read the books for me and just tell me the most important/interesting bits

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  water on my laptop. it died instantly; the technicians at the [annotation ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while ... some of the leading scientists, theorists and practitioners who are ... towards gender and racial equity in cities. Along the way, we will reflect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  the same roof Secrets were whispered Whatever happens to us Wherever you ... subsidized. For me, the big reason I wanted to go to PUMAC was to meet a bunch ... groups. Our group has twelve or so people, the other has eight-ish. After a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019