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• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  of the week. Me: You're not gonna mention ZBT? R: What is there to ... here is okay. But, but the bottom is far, far worse. You're gonna throw ... added something but then immediately retracted it.] Me: You're done. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  yourself before you're pulled out of your seat into a three hour hullabaloo ... off of your feet and gently drop you a few steps ahead. And even if it ... life interesting. I needed a reminder of that. Raise Your Glass To

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  will spend on the rest of your week's meals). This means the Pilot 2021 ... remainder of your weekly meals. So you’ll have to shop/budget/plan on your own and cook at least 7 meals outside of that. If your parents are worried

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a ... during-the-semester musical to be fun." Me: "Yeah, you're right. I won ... Man With A Gun" from Annie Get Your Gun, and left. On March 7, I got

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There ... . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... -that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t-remember”). And what you’re reading is an assignment for 21L.004 (Reading Poetry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  commencement they make you give them your cap and gown, which they proceed to shake. They then check you for any visible bulges. If you’re clean then you get to put your gown on and wait to graduate. I found about a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  mutants, but you can't (because they are inviable). Your boss challenges you ... your construct? That's the kind of thing that can't be solved by ... anything is definitely harder if English isn't your first language. I'm not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  success and efficiency. But when you hide away your sense of self to purely ... dissolve, and your perception is enhanced. This is flow, like Arjuna focusing ... pushing you straight forward and your legs are walking onwards and your eyes

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  you mess up, you’re screwed, no matter what. Mix that with high achiever ... survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that significantly above-average point, you're so screwed. You’re meat. For whatever

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... weightlifting, everything hurts. That's good. Pain is weakness leaving your body ... pinching the top of the udder with your thumb and forefinger, then curling

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  information into your brain using these mediums that are not conducive to your ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning ... disheartening, when it happens at school, a place where you're supposed to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs ... know that someone understands, that you’re normal, and that whatever way ... when you’re scared of a spider and then your mom or someone says “be nice

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  , or between now and whatever you're waiting for. Things to Make While ... ;=50% of it, so maybe don't take it up with him."] Challah. If you're an ... guess, recorded stream) from this year here if you're truly passionate

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  ’ll help those of you considering your match with the Institute before you ... change that. Pretty incredible to have most of your friends also be your ... discover something exciting during your time at MIT—through classes, UROPs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  process, like anything else. You get up. You move on with your life. You never take it personally. You separate yourself emotionally from your ... . Regardless of your opinion of him, he is at least definitely one of the best in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  bridges' structural integrity, what are your goals for the summer? I had ... ! Congrats on recently declaring your major, and on no longer being a freshman ... Cambridge. Woah, fancy. I hope you enjoy your tea. In the meantime, what are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here. #RtweetsJ L: Tell me about your Writing for Social Media class. C: Writing ... through the first week of April. L: Tell me about your particular adaptation

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  researcher, you can get obsessed with and trapped in your little specialty bubble. You can spend YOUR ENTIRE LIFE studying one celestial object! I ... outside your field, and take full advantage of your wider environment. Don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you're ... three days. And, if you're sly (or legitimately busy, but nobody can tell the difference if you don't let others on to your reasoning), you can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  ’t get to any sites that ended with .mit.edu whereas if you were on your ... project, implementing your design ideas, and then scaling that ... – even if you’re taking two classes that are completely unrelated to each

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013