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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with ... , the drop in motivation that followed put a crushing weight on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  accompanied us on indigenous percussion (such as a washboard-like instrument ... teacher was actually Eliberto Barroncas – the instrument maker we met on day ... an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn ... -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in ... people to hop on board. as we got closer to time, I started to question

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  ...nah. while on campus, i'm grinding through pset after pset and using my ... after expending most of my mental energy on attending classes that aren ... things i was planning on doing this quarantine. damn. here are my initial

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same ... taking it online in the middle of the woods on two hours of sleep (yes. I ... [/annotation]. On the other end of the academic spectrum, [annotation note

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  today- no, she says. She has two on Thursday, Economics and Math. I wish ... for my MISTI (watch this space for deets on this!) and I’m there to get ... seven days after I leave, I should spray insect repellant on all exposed

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  answers down on paper because I had given up on actually understanding it ... about having my technical focus being on this one class is that I can actually focus on it. There’s a term in psychology called attention residue

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  conversation about fun artsy things at MIT. I met some alumni who worked on the ... ’s not always possible to rely on solely the frames on screen to create ... happened since the movie ended. The movie was based on Robert Bloch’s 1959

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  backspace on this line for the past twenty minutes, trying to convey this ... , on Fifth West, which is a wonderful hall filled with cats and friends ... -concert hangouts, the psets spent in silence, or sitting outside the window on a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a ... 's, I walk along Mem Drive, but I cut inland this time.[/caption] On my ... on the banks of the Charles River to restrict British passage on the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah ... . There’s a lot of them. On the plus side, it really motivates you to add your ... inconvenience that is very specific to our room since we live on the wrong side of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... except for the voice on the other end. I’m not sure how many of the words I ... the call, and then ending up crouched down on the side of the road for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the ... semester, and there aren't any previous Course 6 exchanges to rely on for ... credits to transfer over, but it'll be work on our end to petition for those

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top ... chowder. We got pretty lost on the way back to campus—turns out riding a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  . Basically, at CPW we have 10 faculty members give 5 minute talks on whatever ... moment. This year, we had: Heather Paxson from Anthropology on the culture of cheesemaking Ariel White from Political Science on voting in an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  in response to Trump's immigration freeze on seven nations. MIT has 38 ... immigrants (reflected beautifully in Vincent's post on Unity), it's been ... institute-wide update on the situation and a reaffirmation of our values

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or lying on your back yelling “I really like this stretch!” Then we would do ... how to perform each exercise. From then on, we dove straight into our

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  beautiful sentence from his upcoming book on queer black social dance. He went on to discuss the "politically embodied concepts and dances originating ... questions to ask.   Killer Mike on Race Relations    On

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  always on the move, always trying to figure out where the next place I can ... the course of my life and set me on a path to learn more about ... California (there were others too!), I decided that I would sign on for

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014