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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by ... . Well, several of these things seem to be happening: physics is getting

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is ... attended a large public school, and was accustomed to getting solid grades

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... anything to happen to us, but keeping us near by just because it appears to ... learning, and if an education is what you want your daughter or son to get

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  so I'd be able to get it! My team's analysis ended up being seven pages ... Before college, I was by no means a hardcore Beatles fan. When I was ... discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  -register online at web.mit.edu/womensweek/. Brought to You By: Panhellenic ... , other MIT offices, and various corporations to organize and fund this year ... 's Week 2005 November 5th-10th "To promote a model of femininity that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... 't remember why I wanted to be a mailman, but I guess it just seemed like a fun

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  — our return expedited by promises to help our floor (Burton One!) run ... IKEA, resolved to finish The Double by the next day. [caption id ... ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  excuse to drink ungodly amounts of hot chocolate. Nothing beats sitting by ... warmest gloves, and the most durable boots. Get ready, it's going to be ... me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  frequencies outside that range I keep getting distracted by curiosity about ... problem sets, and while 6.864 was fun, I didn't get to actually implement ... In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than ... who felt disenfranchised by their government were able to turn on a ... -roots. I get excited by other people being excited. I would be thrilled if 10

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... relied on finger memory, and never learned to sight read or play by ear ... students to get the best and hardest parts and a lot of unnecessary pressure

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also ... changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the spare pictures from last month that I had meant to blog and assembled them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  resilience just by applying. To all the folks who are working full ... The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  weeks pass I'll get a better feel for this place. Maybe even start to fit in, in a way that feels most true to me.  - By the way, just make ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... lot of [annotation note="my list: all about love by bell hooks, crying in hmart by michelle zauner, detransition, baby by torrey peters, stone

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  it quits. Accompanied by two friends, I made my way back to Mc ... desperately to curl up in a hole and wait for time to just pass me by. When Camp ... Last night, I went to bed at 5 am. This morning, I woke up at 9 am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  passed time by throwing out logic puzzles for each other to solve, and math ... would do tomorrow. We agreed upon getting up around 8:15 (blasphemy!) to ... 2 AM, and I headed back to McCormick to get some sleep. The next day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets ... together last term. We get along great now (or know how to fake it with

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  academia. I am actually surprised at the degree to which I am surrounded by ... understand these things: there's so much more math I want to learn, or get ... might want to get involved with. I have found a road to follow, and I will

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  to me to risk judgment by other people. The fact that there are things ... able to enjoy things without getting obsessed the way I used to felt like ... video game. To reject that younger version of myself by consuming media at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021