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  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... what I’ve been trained to do. Every time I wanted to take a hard science ... give to your job, and how much will you want to? I wonder if I’ve failed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  available upon request. I've embedded a copy of the syllabus (PDF link) below

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  goes! I've outlined my general steps and linked to my old posts to give ... investigate or phenomena I'd like to quantify? Here are some things I've asked ... write scripts to analyze and visualize my data. I've put some of my code

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  There are two meals I’ve had consistently this quarantine: for ... a combination of random beans and lentils.  I’ve had the recipe I will share later for at least five years, but I’ve developed a special

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  physically-distanced community representation as you will see. I've embedded

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... online-submission platforms I've used. It comes down to the grading system ... it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I've

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  to this apartment in Cambridge, I've started to cook more, and I ... proximity to H Mart, I've been making a lot of Asian recipes! It's convenient since a lot of ingredients translate across most recipes I've been meaning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  further places? ok. ok. i've got this. no quarter life crisis. ANYWAY ... as long as it's delicious, it's a happy success. I've been thinking a ... . But I've been trying to examine what actually makes me happy, and how I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  considering what i've done since writing these, this list is pretty comical ... can assure you that i have not been exercising or stretching; i've been ... . and all of these things, as i've realized, are hobbies that add

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  reflect on what i had last read. now that i've experienced what it's like to ... are! another thing i've been doing is Dungeons and Dragons. one of my ... , i've decided to get my head out of my ass and give it a chance, and i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  -talk topic? I want fewer of those. Get more involved on campus. I've tried lots of different clubs since my freshman year, but the only one I've ... only have three semesters left at the institution, and I've been thinking

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  about the most significant challenge you’ve faced or something important ... minutes before the MIT deadline. [annotation note="Would've been pretty meta ... .  I’ve worked to incorporate my heritage in my schoolwork, writing a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 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 ... an impact. In retrospect, this essay could've focused more on why I ... should've researched more about what made MIT unique. (Current-me can

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... -epic REX disaster, I’ve decided to offer you people some advice for when your ... with the uncertain To be TOTALLY clear: your plan, the one you’ve been

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  as jobs at MIT being counted as part of the award; basically stuff I've ... . The latter made me reflect on other emails I've sent as an adult and ... some reflection, I've come up with three reasons why it is hard for me to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... ! She tells me I’ve been very brave, and I get three band-aids to show off ... need to appreciate them. I pack a few clothes, since I've rather

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

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  since sophomore fall- I've learned some stuff! I have a better grasp on stress and strain and all that, sure. But I've also learned about how I ... still on campus and one on the West Coast, where I've starting looking for

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  taught the 6.810 class I took last semester. For the past few weeks, I've ... semester. 6.033 I don't have any pset classes, but I've been doing so much ... the Head of Product Design at Continuum. *** This is the class I've

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  . Until someone shouts at you with concern as you've walked into a dressing ... ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls eating what they've just bought. But where I'm standing still seems to be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018