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• 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 ... I perceive every building I enter really intensely,” said our ... . I moved into pika this fall, which makes me feel almost froshlike. I

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

  Spring Break. mmmmm

  

  mom’s spaghetti.

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • April 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  Media Lab, a classmate accidentally shattered my laptop screen. While I was with my group presenting our project, I left my coat on a chair, backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no idea what.” At one point I turned to a friend and said, bro, what did I… You get the point. So now, I am conducting an anthropological study on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  I noticed about MIT--that underlying, unshakable thumpthumpthump that echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... , filling them with a determination and vigor I've never quite seen before

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person when it come to what I want to do, so I was dead confident that nothing ... Science) and Course 9 (Brain + Cognitive Sciences) departments. I think

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things ... micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  Today I finally filed the tax returns I’d been putting off since March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New Zealand, where I held a full-time job.  Most salaried jobs will withhold

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  Walking alone 'cause the night is dead. Crossed my mind when I ... lyrics by fun.']fun.,[/annotation] "Walking the Dog" Yet whenever I cross ... been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  . I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... , and I've left behind my past self but haven't yet entered a new one -- it's a pupal stage. This is probably the weirdest summer I've ever

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... "]two jobs[/annotation] remotely. Here's what my day looked like. 8:57 AM I wake up three minutes before my alarm. I've been waking up before 9 every

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  okay. i'm super behind on this and that's my bad. but... when you ... worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i never thought i needed to bike anywhere, but y'all, i was wrong. SO wrong

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough seconds to annoy[annotation note="my roommate"]caleb[/annotation] as i go back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it's 9:30 and i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an Information Session about MIT. Afterwards, I was visiting some teachers when I ... in every math class I took. Although my high school was incredibly

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  one year ago i was living in an apartment in seattle while on leave from mit. the apartment looked like this:   this past semester i was an mit student again. i took four and a half classes and worked a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  I wrote this email two nights ago, a little after midnight:   woke up ~ 5 am today. it was early and the sun had not risen. i contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015