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  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... was a lot going on, because there's always a lot going on. So I didn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ... ." "got a long day ahead. mondays are stacked for me." after 99 seconds, i ... class. there's still a ridiculous amount of snow. 10:05. my first class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  Hello hello! I am Alina S. (‘24). Briefly: I am a course 2A (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House. I am Vietnamese and Filipino and a first-gen immigrant on both sides

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  with a Pinterest board dedicated to being an [annotation note="One of 16 ... hindsight, I see their point; I spent a lot of energy trying to maintain this ... high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in

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

  Summers spending three at home

  

  anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... cousin’s Bar Mitzvah, traveled to Moscow with our family, drew a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... -feel-like-we’d-rather-be-doing-more-artsy-things”) was a big reason we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... , but I was excited because the headliner was Shin Lim, a Boston ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... now it feels a little more like home. — I'm a sophomore and a new ... summer I’ve ever had, so I’ll tell you a little bit about it. On my last

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  college decisions being sent to their inboxes. Such a beautiful season. If ... week and next. I remember this week in late March as a very scary time ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... for a few hours before starting the procession. Throughout the ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  admissions. Over the year and a half that I've been here, after meeting ... applicants formulate their own college applications. It was a MIT senior that ... initial outrage, tinged with a hint of sadness. I have a lab report and a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... out, is National Reply Date. It had been a pleasure sharing what I know ... over a month!) Well, here it is: Starting from pretty much the first

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  better this semester than last (*grin*), so that's a nice feeling. All that's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share. I walked out of my room one day to discover a huge mess. Well, it may

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  I haven't really done much exciting this break -- I haven't taken a ... . (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post-graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since ... , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006