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  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  This Monday, as many Mondays go, felt like a terrible start to my ... assignments and grades and class materials, similar to schoology ... for time management, and so had not attempted to download the practice

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this: you should probably not expect to marry the person you broke the ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... before the pop-up, I got an email telling me I had been selected to attend

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness ... , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  call to adventure [caption id="" align="alignright" width="500 ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union, and How to Stay Private on the Internet, the list goes on and on.  MG

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

    6.006(6.1210): Introduction to Algorithms  21W.771: Advanced Poetry ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... this semester, so I have to take the seminar"]Undergraduate Teaching

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... were going to meet along Mass Ave. I arrived at Mass Ave shortly before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

   Let's get right to it. What went into making this year's Pi ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working ... turned out, I didn’t need to because I was recently assigned to join the Pi

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here. The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a fun exercise, I decided to go back to my freshman year bio and annotate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  , I’m just so glad, happy, elated, delighted to be here with people I’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and

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

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  their professors as they try to strike it rich at blackjack by counting ... received a full scholarship worth more than $52,000 to attend MIT next year ... -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the goods and bads of freshman year, what do you have to say about mit now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a ... helping to dilate my blood vessels, and how this all related to the pressure

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18 ... mad at me because my kindergarden teacher wanted to talk to her, and she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim ... complex, convoluted routes to the center. Every time they were returned to ... to take six classes, bitch about it, have no time…  [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  whatever MIT has to throw at me. That last paragraph is supposedly my identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly ... Calculus I 3.091 = Intro to Solid-State Chemistry 21M.011 = Intro to Western

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019