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  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  Hi world, it’s me!!! I haven’t been writing on the blogs much because I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  same week, and in some cases the same day, and I felt overwhelmed beyond ... arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer break. So, with second semester in full swing, I had about 5 midterms in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... first day back started. I got up way too early, ate way too much

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from Wisconsin, and the other, Abby, is from San Diego. Last week I get home from

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  are pretty straightforward, I think, but then sometimes you’re me ( / a ... with your actual grade.”)) I should probably clarify up front that ... finals.. I mean I guess if I’m being dramatic I could probably define it as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  definitely was the case for me. I was 12 when Jon Stewart began hosting TDS, but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... difficult to navigate where all the booths were. But eventually, I stumbled

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  Yo homez, I'm back! And guess what? I'm a senior. I. AM. A. SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p-setting even through they're on Pass/No-Record, and I think to myself, "hahahaha

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  I absolutely hate picking favorites. My grandmother always said never to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway. Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  I am really excited for spring semester’s classes, and without ... .013 – Introductory Biology (a GIR class) I’m ALWAYS excited to take biology, but that ... the course. I think this has something to do with the science education

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  So I'm sick right now. Again. It's some lovely combination of fever, nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I was sick when classes first started, got better, and now I've been sick

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  is 3:30 am Friday night and I am moving back to EC tomorrow starting 11am. I don't know how I did this 2 months ago, how do you pack up ... -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I ... problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... ...but what now?" What now, indeed. As I mentioned before, this Saturday I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into neither of these categories, I put off of grading 5.112 problem sets (which I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  childhood friend Charles Ives. Hokay, so I still do exist and I still do blog once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... my current situation, but I can't remember it because I didn't end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  sorted out (and has been sorted out for quite awhile), I have a few ... admitted! Exciting, isn't it? It's so exciting that I'm excited for you. I ... enroll. Don't be shy- send me an email. Say hi. Introduce yourself. I try

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing ... mouse project, I've been working on a yeast two-hybrid screen. Basically

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005