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• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  probably will be for a while. It’s easy to interpret that as lazy. And maybe ... ’t have the patience for you. You’re petrified of slipping up, perpetually defending yourself from mild jeering after every mistake, and for some reason

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... for, i feel like there's no speed limit. i always have a feature to work ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is ... ’s definitely bad for you but you love it anyway. —Adira B. ’21 This is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... did a sub-par essay. I sat here for two hours, thinking of characters ... was just after 1 am. We’d gone to all-you-can-eat sushi for three hours

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... MIT for you to explore. You’ll eventually know where each path will go ... for the first time. Please, I've never left MIT, not since I came here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  i'll omit for now."]trusty Spotify playlist.[/annotation] The walks ... ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my ... windy, and I had brought the wrong jacket for the circumstances. The first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  . Why was I embarrassed for losing a chess game with no stakes nor ... resign." "It'll be good for you. You'll learn to deal with failure." It ... 'm good at. "Cami, that's not how things work." For the past few hours, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  out of here. Shit, where did she go? I frantically look around for my ... conversation. "Hey! Sorry, lost you for a bit." "That's good, have you met ... myself to do it, thinking naively that I could be her for a night, but all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its ... what? I built a loft from scratch!!! Been sleeping on it for two weeks ... ) are able to take some of the wood and reuse it for their own ends. When

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  questions about the Boston startup scene. We caught up for a bit, and she ... overwhelmed. The convention room just for startups was huuuuge! Larger than any ... clothes for you. I even met two MIT grads, both working on different

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  happily forgot about insects for four years in a wealth of friends, classes ... for “moths brazil” and this was the first hit. Look, here was an ... internships. I wasn’t looking for a standard internship, but I had nothing to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... (turning in p-sets and the like), prepared soup for everyone. It shouldn’t be ... storyteller I possibly could be. High school was a period of full bloom for me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... Nitrogen Ice Cream!! I scream, you scream, we all scream for 77 Kelvins. 18 ... . Come tuck into a meat-free feast prepared for you by Randomites. If you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite you to read some of these pointers. They'll set you up well for your ... always down for burrito breaks; another who loves crepes, musicals, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a ... got moved to Friday? So essentially all I had to do was study for my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that ... prompted me, hungry for more text. The slightly chilly breeze is blowing in ... completely different to what I studied for. In fact, I seriously felt like I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of ... to register for PBIE happens to be June 28th; I happened to be making

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... cheese cubes and prepared for the feature presentation. Alright, so Kate ... pretty much already over for me. Bill actually turns out not to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  that quantum phenomena, as absurd as they seem, are real. And for once, I ... process for us and dramatically speeds up experiments. Instead of placing ... light that, for simplicity, we can measure as an angle between 0° and 90

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  -full of questions for all of us current MIT students and I find myself ... for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm ... should make sure you have time for it in the future. There is no one

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021