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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  possible. I would perform on top of the coffee table, singing loudly and ... spend a lot of time on Wikipedia reading up on celebrities I admire. In ... playing on me. You will have the most freeing, most independent, most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  Bryan's blog soon! Read on for responses to comments. Lots of responses ... affect the amount of time it takes. We do work in groups on psets, and ... order to do well on tests? i guess i'm just kind of scared of being the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest, grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the ... not worry if your interview report has not yet appeared on your My ... : The admissions officers will be reading these applications all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  !"]matrix multiplication does (usually) depend on the order of multiplication ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  know after five years of living here is more on every level than the one ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  were so reminiscent of lab and design questions on my engineering PSETs ... defined success based on whether I felt satisfied with my results instead of ... font size on plot axes. One of the comments for my final paper was

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  'll die on that hill if I'm not already dead from one of the trials ... brain can't summon the idiom "to take with a grain of salt." Work on ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  realize suddenly that the cold brew on tap that had been out of service for ... 've used a lot of software-engineering-specific terms in this blog post ... of my working day revolves around said specific terms. also, because

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  something known as rush tickets, tickets you can get on the day of the show ... of reflection. I've been spending a lot of time on my own as a symptom ... myself for going on this journey of self discovery this summer. It may not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  based on the skill level of your team so you get the fairest competition ... inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  the mountains. My sense of the physical geography on this side of the ... , after the train’s many delays, the two of us met up on the platform ... stuck in my head on this portion of the journey is pristine. So much of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... (usually) nude model poses in the middle of a room in a series of timed poses

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  , timing, so on and so forth. Then, on the day of, we got up at 7 AM to make ... then terrified on the day of because I felt like I had very little skill ... been hard on all of us. It was clear, though, that we had shared the same

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  hat has reappeared on special days including the first day of school ... to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... weird accumulation-of-facts thing that I do constantly? Am I going to be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014