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• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  did? I set my interview for 10:45 AM on Tuesday, and I woke up at 10 ... interview at 10:52. Seven minutes late. I was totally out of breath and asked ... . In defeat, I looked at my phone and saw a message in a Cru group chat

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  canceling of her shows at the beginning of the pandemic and how she felt that ... everything to get you laughing at me I'm still a believer but I don't know why ... that trapeze I'm still trying everything To keep you looking at me

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  what I would double in—mit only assigns majors at the end of the first ... semester of sophomore year. at the time, computer science seemed like the ... that later). however, the first semester at mit is taken on pass

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who was checking IDs glanced at me and said, "You're definitely under twenty ... the music video, Mitski, a half-Japanese woman, waves at a white boy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  : Yeah. I guess we're not really at the vantage point to pass judgment at it. CJ: But by the time we are at that point… Anna: …then it ... , right? CJ: Yeah. And the only thing I've done before this was a UROP at a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... being confused - i thought at the time that art was supposed to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte ... , haggling," said Masha). Weld Your Own Bike (at D-Lab) This class actually started at the very end of fall semester. MIG welding was a pre-requisite to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... read the script as well as watch. The script itself is hilarious at times, dark at others, and absurd all the way, tackling issues under a profound

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

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  at the kitchen table and I look out at the river, I feel like I’m in ... , actually. 7.015, 8.01L, and 18.01a, at least before i switched out. it ... feeling that I should try to get a more solid foundation in calculus at MIT

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  't bother him a whole lot, he said it was definitely a lot at times. I ... me that she's gotten better with age at holding her tongue (though her ... referring to at first, but then I looked around the room as she spoke. "You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ! Well, except for..." Except for the cooking. Cue shrug from me. At just ... assigned. My parents (who met at a university with a mandatory 20-meal ... ass)."][/annotation] My line at the time was, I don't mind a walk to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  like I was bald. Everyone laughed at the time…I guess the 90s were ... first year at MIT, at some event being accosted by brutally geeky middle school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  this class. Danny: At this point in the semester, we knew that we’d need ... ’m taking at MIT, and it’s a much different story. The ice rink melted, turned ... just said. Also, I LOL’ed at “my ice skates became tennis rackets

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would ... phenomenon, which is common at MIT: 6.00 lectures introduce basic concepts (e ... class best taken at MIT, as the Institute is on the forefront of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  activities while increasing health awareness and curbing dangerous behaviors at ... pretty pro. Look at these beautiful swirly crepes! Props to Niyati :) People gathering around the condiment table at Crepes Night!   One of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  is “one of those”, you might say). He runs through his hangouts at ... get excited about the Amharic class he’s taking at Harvard. On our way ... ’t seen you guys at all this year,” referring to our mutual group of friends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  be happy to meet with me. Absolutely mortified at the idea that they had discussed me at the grading session, I arranged to meet with him on ... figured I might as well get all these conversations over with at once.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  headed out and looked at the tunnel system (MIT has tunnels that connect ... day). Disconcertingly, there was nobody else down there at the time. I ... going to be the new trend in blogging. Thursday: Woke up at 8:30 AM to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  love Boston weather. Most people look at me like I'm crazy when I say ... the people waiting for me at the airport would just leave because they thought I wasn't coming, and d e stranded at Logan airport until my flight

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... like starting class at 10 am. And I really like that my day ends at 2 pm ... to say students don't get individual attention from professors at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008