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  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 / 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 / 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 / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing ... . Tenors are always in short supply, so I sign up. It’s a pretty good gig; I ... that I’ve been able to sing with a large ensemble in person, and it is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around ... . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it is. friends  this goes without saying so I will keep this short but

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  When my friends asked me what my spring break plans were, I said ... if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like three or four locations by the time I'm writing this post, but I still had

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive ... mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert. I’ve been thinking recently about how I love Tucson but I may never live here again

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  by “I have never seen anywhere as crowded as Flour is, and also these sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... serious, but I considered them all quests that I was determined to achieve. So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... sets and early morning rowing practices. I’m excited to see my friends

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

          i've been spending a lot of time away from mit. i've been going to lincoln laboratory in lexington once or twice a week (running experiments for my aeroastro capstone). i've been

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of posting patterns on the blogs. But when I ran it earlier this morning, I realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013