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  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... practice for competitions. And while Paolo and I would definitely just play ... surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky, and so I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  Two days ago, I won a 35mm SLR on eBay! Now I have something I can use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually, dropped isn't the correct word. I neglected to [annotation note="I am so, so

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog posts about waiting for decisions and that kind of stuff. personally, i wouldn’t know. as soon as i got deferred the thought of reading the blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  I like to tell myself that I've escaped my high school demons. That ... existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid eye contact or nervously crack my knuckles when I talk to someone who

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  I was reading back over the last two entries and realized I may have ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be ... know. During my hiatus, I also declared MIT's newest major: Computation and Cognition, also known as Course 6-9. I feel accomplished

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  I've always been very open and honest with my struggles with computer ... field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get into touch with Rishi - but his email was buried until I just discovered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire ... eventually you will end up with the sentences you want to write anyway. i got

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  sophomore year, I switched from taking mostly large introductory general ... "]in-major classes,[/annotation] which was a big adjustment for me, and I moved entries ... different. Junior fall, I became a blogger, and had just changed my major, so

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time". I had written this list freshman spring, when I REALLY didn't have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  Last Thursday night, I was walking back from Simmons after making dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired, and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  at the same time, avoiding injury. I have deep scars on both knees, from times I'd scrape my knee and then keep running, tearing the wound ... my shoe chafed it bloody every race my senior year. This summer, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back to MIT, I am sad to report that the habit has ceased and I no longer run everyday. I realized recently that I lack discipline. I've been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl ... ’t take a lot of pictures.   “I am not pretty. I’ve got a big heart.  I am not confident. I might be smart.”  “But I am not cool.”  

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My jewelry supplies are still in the desk drawer, though I've taken my best ... , stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023