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• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  .) I’ve never been very good at school. This feels strange to admit ... someone. I can go to lectures and do my homework and pass my classes, but at ... this happen, why should I sit at a desk and work for somebody else? But I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in ... 've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let ... think at that time of semester i spent a lot of time playing kingdom of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Spinning Arts exec meeting at 5pm, [annotation note="time for people to get ... people get to spin stuff on fire outdoors."]spinjam[/annotation] setup at 6 ... of my poem in my room, so I had to walk back to EC. At EC, I realized I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime ... requirement, which is made up of eight subjects of at least nine units each ... my feelings made more sense: Possible answer: At some point, I found

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  , because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation ... instead of someone who's lost and drifting at sea, trying to find a way back ... because i’m good at making people feel good. i’m good at making people feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the ... . Eventually, people got better, but my family and I still jump at phone calls ... , my sorority twin's little, Dasha, didn't get recruited at all. In all

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  one of my favorite classes at MIT. I will likely write an entire post ... lecture. I don't do a single reading. I go to recitation and look at optical ... my time at MIT in general. A few months back, I checked into a hotel

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I ... files. I am downright horrendous at keeping digital spaces clean, so my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not ... at Math Prize all over again; that Covid might end and my high school ... in[/annotation], and he kind of just blinked at me and went,  “You

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

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... learning curve to be steep. This is true to most courses at MIT. That's why ... -points. Thus, 6.0001 felt a little sterile at times. 6.0001 is in 26-100, which

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  idea that I might not succeed or be good at something hadn’t crossed my ... tried, I just couldn’t figure it out. Well, at least not at first. “I ... mentioned what I actually failed at doing. The reason for that is that it

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  improves our ability to predict subsequent student success at MIT. When we ... preparation; when we don’t, we have to look (even) harder at other factors, such ... [annotation note='Here at MIT, President Reif recently announced that we are

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  Well, the moment is finally here. My last first day at (virtual) MIT ... still remember getting a whopping 34 on my first midterm at MIT. I ... place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  what other people were doing, or even what people liked at the time. He ... honestly, it’s so difficult to do. I mean just look at influencer culture or content creator culture…actually even look at college admissions culture and

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  weekends either. I kind of feel like I’m back at MIT in that regard. Part of ... ’ve been trying to be better about self-care (p.s. I’m really bad at sticking ... at the sky, bonus points if I can see stars. I try my best to spend

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  at the end of all this, I'll write them up and post them somewhere (on ... be texting my friends back but taking any action at all seems ... who sets the word list. ("Really? They take that?!?") We also go on at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  -off parties, for thank-you cards, for savouring the moment... Even at the best ... or other older family members who are most at risk. So, to sum up ... . (For context: "cathartic screaming" is a popular tradition at MIT, often

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  Every class year at MIT gets their own personalized Brass Rat. What ... at Ring Premiere; then everyone scrambles to spend their life savings ... content of the presentation. However, I don't regret going at all! Part of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  slowly chip away at my GIRs. My World Music class served as a welcome and ... means for me; trying to get seven hours of sleep, eat at least two healthy ... research positions, make it for my library shift, smile at every dog I walk

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020