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  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  finally received an interview from a small start-up. The interview went fine ... said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little ... qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician ... existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber ... do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of self-discovery, mostly. i did a lot of cooking, a lot of romanticizing, a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it, because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... was a gray day. Most days were gray that month. The pandemic had just

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it's a remote program, because *gestures wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non-credit class through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Here's a photo of me in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the ... a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I ... four easy classes and a return offer under my belt, I had a lot of extra

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... struggling through Zoom, right? And I drafted a long thing about having chronic ... . Every weekend, I think, “This week we’ll make a schedule, kid, right? This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce"']a ... being curled up inside with a blanket while, outside the window ... are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... as an international student. Recruiting season feels like a make ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... colored pen, looking out the window at a Cambridge street below. Ambulances scream past, sometimes five in a week, and my computer, hearing the noise

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... operating as a remote community. Even though your first semester at MIT will

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful ... bother fixing it since my motherboard is a goner. it took about six ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... accomplished after a year of Pass/No Record. It also was refreshing because I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... so hard sometimes Be calm Take it from me, I’ve been there a thousand ... everything’s wrong It just gets so hard sometimes Be calm This is rather a mood

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  up was opening containers. We started with a clear plastic one. Its lid ... , hidden by our 13 year old selves, was an atrocity. A persuasive essay about the true identity of a Naruto character, printed into a booklet and its

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... about 6.033, being with a community of friends i lived with and saw daily ... move out. by friday, when i left, 2 east was a ghost town, stripped and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is ... Everything. This is just me being a hopeless perfectionist. MIT has forced me ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  Last semester, I took 18.100A (Real Analysis) with Professor Choi ... class a tad bit overconfident and not as concerned that the class would be ... , cite a theorem, and turn it in. Well, that is exactly what I did, and I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  below first. If you can’t find an answer here, leave a comment or feel ... submit the form, even if you don’t have any updates for us. (Do you sense a ... Chemistry HL 97 Japanese A- If your school does quarter grades: Biology A, A

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018