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• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... about the days where it feels like I'm trying to stand on water, and just ... my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... black and brown people I love to feel safe and beloved in their skin. We ... be brave enough, imaginative enough, and compassionate enough to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my ... I put my nose to the colloquial grindstone and burned through every ... my attention span, I packed up and started walking to the Church of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  ="Introduction to Geophysics and Planetary Science"]12.002,[/annotation] [annotation note="Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics"]12 ... interests and the classes I wanted to take spanned the two tracks. Since we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn ... , population biology, structural biology, and much more! My branch is ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time ... quizbowler; I am objectively much worse at reading, writing, and speaking ... trivia or I didn't. There were competencies to meet and competitions to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  questions and he's been glad to oblige. He's not at all stuffy, though. One ... stops to answer them at length, and if she doesn't have time for a ... 't work very hard, but he's always willing to give us extra help and spend

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  to experience and I learned so much in this relationship. But for now ... place to settle down yet. And then one of my friends laughed loudly and ... be stupid and alone and I need to fuck up and I need to live on my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  racks to store your luggage and a scrolling neon sign announcing the next ... the terminal and the airlines that use that terminal.) You want to stay ... you don’t have to go there. A charitable and durable bus took you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  'd say, "Marge, I have a yen to travel." And Marge would agree instantly ... Barry. Millennia later, we don't seem to have changed all that much. I ... occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I ... balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to ... uncover the truth and beauty behind depriving ourselves of sleep to slog

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe ... insecure about herself and needs to prove her worth to everyone around her by ... my MEng next semester, and I do not want to be taking 102 units, and I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... international orientation started, I started meeting new people and going to most ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  technique of choice is to delete files en mass and never look back. It is also ... has led to hundreds of notes to delete, and I thought I'd share some ... are there. Next we have "apple," and what I presume to be "apple" in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like ... , to college applications, to my MIT acceptance, and to now. I see names ... faces have started to erode with the passing of time and I am afraid that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  that if you know what major you want to pursue, you can declare it and be ... presented. I applied to MIT with an interest in Course 9, and nothing I ... too much. I finally felt like I was a real college student and that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... SICK AND TIRED I AM SO DONE WITH GOOGLING THESE NAMES! I DON’T WANT TO ... , and part of me feels this is how someone wants things to be. Just… get

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off and ... , My first priority was to focus on eating well and to cook most, if not ... cookies, and baguettes. Some tasted better than I though, some not so much

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  much on the blogs. But it was so fun and lovely to just be in full ... bars! I love going to clubs! And I've been doing a LOT of that this ... to other bars/frats/clubs on Friday and Saturday. It's been horrible

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud ... because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... driving force behind MediaCloud, a project to help researchers ask and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014