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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend. By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  one So I left, that is it That's my life, nothing is sacred I don't keep friends, I keep acquainted I'm not a prophet, but I'm here to profit people graduated a couple weeks ago and i didn’t feel as sad i was supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... average student takes while at MIT, it was a number I felt comfortable with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late. I’m surrounded by pamphlets, business cards, cute bookmarks and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  1/3/22 The sentences just didn't seem to flow as I attempted different potential blog concepts. I had ideas, but none came out smooth. They were choppy, disjointed, or I simply did not like them. Of course, when a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  me and asked if I was okay.  “You’re always so bubbly but you’re quiet ... school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really talk to anyone outside of the people I knew from different

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... tired. It took me all of sophomore fall to learn that difference. I was tired, so tired, and I mistook unhappiness for exhaustion. I was

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  the shit they talk about you is downright rude, racist, or sexist. I haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... ostrich got me through senior year pretty well, although I was helped by the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  wednesday, november 15 i wake up from a weird dream. it's five minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while, so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I was living in Chicago. I didn’t know anyone I was living with. Over the course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  I was a high achiever since a young age just because I thought school ... made the whole experience more bearable. But I wasn’t always a ... that perfectionism is purely evil, because I do believe there are cases

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i ... playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a freshman year playlist before i started school last August. and since my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  I thought I would be okay a whole three weeks out, but even during ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post ... (MTG) put on its last performance of “A Chorus Line”. I was exhausted at

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am ... November, and I'm reminiscing about my own early action application. Here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this time, I thought I’d just dwell on some words I’d been thinking about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  easily. On my first full day here, I jumped onto a trapeze, despite the fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though I’d never stayed up later than 4 am during school years. I had eleven

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it ... down a quick list of what I do by days of the week: Monday: 7

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  It is 5:16am. At about 4:45, I walked into Senior House. I had been at East Campus working on a 5.111 (chemistry) pset with a friend. I actually enjoyed doing it, despite the very obvious fact that I spent all

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  that I absolutely love everything about Chicago and the Chicago Cubs (my family and I are all die hard fans) and will literally rave about the city ... my hall in EC, Beast, who are my best friends that I love greatly and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019