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  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the ... year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  the past month I've been here. "I am smart and capable and ready." I don't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my ... then, I didn't understand the content as well as I should have. Even then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  myself the embarrassment, I won't be posting that here, but it reminded me about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions ... the[annotation note="this also gave me an excuse to avoid studying for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to build a phylogenetic tree that helps me analyze how similar the protein

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  really could've prepared me for the reality of it. It's a genuine timesuck ... just to keep my head above the water. 5.601 is more or less the same. Apparently it was even worse last semester, to the point where when I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not ... taken up by classes or extracurriculars. My mornings are taken up by the ... at 9am Get ready for the day and eat a protein bar Leave the DPhi

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my life--SZA, Solange Knowles, Sappho, my mother. Schoolwork saturated the ... snippets from the past month. (I've kind of been following my own schedule

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... exaggerated position, just to start. Regarding the myth that, as soon as some ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , I mean that I'm not attending the last two classes I have today ... blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... through classes, time goes more and more slowly, the lecturer seems to have

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  ship it all the way across the country. But we do, so I started packing a ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... , especially since I haven't been doing any of that (thinking, that is) for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... 't ambitious didn't feel true. Maybe the problem is my definition of ambition. Do ... approach to work, science, and passion. So, I've spent the summer mulling

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to ... , however, a freshman only lottery over IAP. I was one of the lucky ones to get drawn for this lottery. I did not accept the position because I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  under Microsoft called The New Technologists program. I wrote a bit about ... for working with me for the past seven weeks. I have learned so much and ... . Week 0 In the first week of the program, we were paired with another team

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  farmers' markets in the summer. It reminded me that summer was special ... about writing one or trying to contribute, to do the work to untangle my thoughts and express the frustration or the whatever else was in there. But

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours ... sophomore year. I'm trying to be more conscious about the time between my

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of ... really explore the fields that they are interested in"]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... his way out of the building?” My house is a confusing maze of stairs and winding hallways. “What if he accidentally opens the wrong door and goes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  . Interview answers have been edited for brevity. Give me the one-sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the ... , hanging out on campus, talking about my MIT experience, or reacting to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  the very easy and simple meals I put together for myself. Also, for ... eight hour eating window throughout the day (typically 1pm to 9pm). I'm also trying to be a little more conscious about the food I intake, trying

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020