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  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18.03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how ... I have no idea who this is. April denies it. Maybe Adelaide? I don't

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  , right? I don't think I'm going crazy. On Monday I had my first shift on ... ... ...you know what? I'm just not even going to go there. I don't even want to ... the summer so I don't actually know, but I can't imagine that it's the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  stuffed me on the 10:30 AM bus anyway, which they don't really advertise on ... city opened up to you that's only a short bus ride away. If you don't ... scheduled to arrive. But, I mean, don't let that stop you from taking Fung Wah

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  the janitorial staff. Believe me, as an MIT student, you don't want to ... , stood facing the proscenium, and played two songs that I don't entirely ... Police are another group that you really don't want to upset too much. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Ave from MIT. If you don't want to spend money, there's a new student ... , and you don't know what was in their packets...it might include trying ... lot more stories, but I don't want to give too much away...in case this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  too want these things you don’t really know anything about. With this ... love that song so much, because I know that I don’t relate to it! It’s a ... of other things that I probably don’t even fully understand. Each song

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  ways a video, and you don't get to see still images all too often. Unless ... me something in French and I said I don't speak French... in French ... thing with Amtrak is that they don't own much of the rails they operate on

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  back to normal again? But those are questions that I don’t know. What I ... , that feeling of loss in those early days. In writing this post, I don't ... any cleaning items for our programs.  A few days prior (I don’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  you hate baseball (in which case I’d argue you just don’t get it, but

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  defend. 1. Proofs are boring Don't you dare show me a mathematical proof

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  gassy (shh don’t tell anyone else) as I waited for my baggage. I glanced ... hills. [carousel image1="116032" image2="116033" /] Yeah, I don’t have ... should be wary of stranger danger. I don’t want to set a bad example and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and not hit me back. i am not a very avid reader but i have lately collected lots of short poems. i don't think i have many words of wisdom or

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  freshman from las vegas, nevada (and before you ask, no, i don’t have an ... venture capital conference which is pretty interesting because I don't ... don't have to think too hard to feel grateful. but i’m far from perfect

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  and teach 9 out of the 10 days mostly on my own. (don't worry, she

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  -Fi comforting. I don't need to white knuckle my way through the slow, relaxed ride ... between who I am today at 27, and who I was then at 17, I don’t feel as if I ... shocks me three years later. Even when I cross register for classes, I don’t

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... internal becoming external. I no longer feel ashamed at the many ways I don’t ... life. I don’t fixate on how I think I’ve squandered the resources and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  's how it goes. Y'all don't care about what's going on in the life of a 30 ... 're applying, you'll likely not be admitted. Sorry to be a jerk about it, but don't ... a freshman class of fewer than 1,500. Don't let this failure ruin you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the ... mistakes,[/annotation] [annotation note="I still don't have my grade so watch

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  that time watching Please Don't Destroy videos [+50 aura] because my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  I grew up without any public transportation. The closest thing we had in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a single bus route that I don’t believe really existed. But when my family

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024