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• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  antsy. Friday turned into Saturday and I was staring up at the underside ... needed drained every last ounce of energy out of me. At some point, I ... hallway playing with a hyper Kiko before I went back to my room. -- At 3 AM

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  even post anything at all because that spark that was once there is now ... it is at MIT. I cried if I didn't understand things. Got frustrated and threw things at walls, broke things, even went as far as to banging my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... ’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT ... officers at MIT are expected to work 6 days out of the week, to meet our

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... downstairs, and then I went to sleep. I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first ... of friends. The sun starts to set at around 6, which was when I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  campus. It's this feeling of people at work, constantly thinking and ... 've stayed up staring at code because I just didn't understand, or days where I've just thrown my pset at the ground and just started crying. But in these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at ... was figuring out these little hacks and easter eggs about MIT. Things at ... think I knew the majority of the majors at heart and even if I didn't, you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... rush over to South Station at around noon, only to find out that due to ... peace, comrade. Our bus was scheduled to leave at 12:50 p.m.; we don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  have had with many other international students at MIT, heavy with the ... discussion does succeed in giving me, at least, some context--is it so ... before modern U.S. government barely lasted ten years or so--at least

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  onsite interview at a healthcare software company (with travel, food, and ... also got to eat hot cheese curds at the supposedly best cheese curd place ... so friendly. My taxi driver suggested that we stop at a local grocery

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of Ceri’s vlogs, her friend’s jokes too), cheered at their accomplishments ... -of-the-ordinary that happened during that day at school. At that point, it was already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... , except for the security guard at the front desk, and a few passer-buyers on ... cram for or psets to scramble to finish. But skating it was--either at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... melodramatically shrieks, “Avada Kedavra!” at Harry Potter in the penultimate forest ... , depressed serial killers and cautious illegal immigrants. At this point, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am, there was a knock at my door.  I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... , and the girl at my door told me that she did not feel right.  I opened

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  probably pre-frosh anyway. (And my friends at work who, in the connected ... 're getting in - admissions rates are at ridiculous lows - but throw your app in ... times until you're done. How is this different? One fish at a time. With

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  at Cambridge and the culture at MIT is that the former has a greater ... 't graded; everything depends on the final (the Tripos) at the end of the year, so unlike at MIT, there isn't a constant pressure to work on psets. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  cringe when they see the title. Dining is the current hot topic at MIT for ... . What I will discuss is how the current dining system at MIT operates ... food at MIT (more specifically, dinner), and they are: 1) House Dining

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  So my schedule at work is pretty sweet. I work slightly long days all ... beautiful prose and various other forms of media. I left the dorm at 5:30 PM for a concert I was told started at 7:00 PM. I strapped on my skates

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  of staring at Jira, VS Code, C++ docs, and the free snack selection in ... life. I found myself staring at these houses each day as I passed ... a creeping sense of dread at this vision of settling–not settling as

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  firespinner has at least one “safety” with a fire blanket. We have a separate ... fire and manipulate. It consists of at least one wick, and a handling end ... and shape of the wick, as well as the speed you’re spinning it at. Here

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... beginning to get the hang of how to be at MIT, how to make the most of the ... leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025