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  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  stress and energy that the class was causing me was too much to handle. I ... , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the ... , which are similar to floats, contain seltzer, milk, syrup, and a scoop

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  to sing, and, accordingly, put people into various duos and trios that ... the end of the semester, we were asked to record those pieces and edit ... anything, and I ended up being assigned to two duos—“Maria, mater gratiæ" by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  myself without the energy to stand up anymore and fell asleep at a table in ... , and they also need weekends, if not only to catch up on sleep. No matter ... up until 4am Saturday morning on the internet talking to my friends and

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  people spinning at once) per week, and I've been able to make it to a lot ... doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  books at once, and to dive into more difficult books that take slower ... marked as to be written "much later," when I'm older and wiser and have ... blogging very much recently, and, if we're being honest, I've felt pretty

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  my best to minmax and try and get as many tasks done in once. This is ... made it super hard to study since my energy and motivation is never ... introduced her to the old YouTubers I watched like The Try Guys, Dan and Phil

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  wardrobe, lofted bed, and shelves to create a walk-in closet! My ... [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm ... gets painted back to white eventually and the curved walls some of the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  overcommitter and a workaholic to boot"]at once.[/annotation] I’d like to also ... terms that I don’t have the time and energy to dive fully into every ... weeks. And to be fair, it wasn't difficult, so much as it was just beyond

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  changes, and so does the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field, which ... more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I ... extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and upbeat. As you can see, this does not come naturally. She wants me to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... either choose a career or a family and failing to choose will only lead to ... to cut back or stop working once they have children. This staggering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  Classical Mechanics course, and it promised to be a great class. And since ... rare stroke of luck, and I was finally starting to have a schedule. Then ... ! This is how it's going to be. Prof Belcher's schedule does not permit

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  machines: plus a computer lab with solid modeling and CAM programs to ... have: the Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics) lab space. I have to ... appropriately decorated, and the areo/astro library is located right next to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  , simply send a message to [email protected] and we'll be happy to take ... '12 had created a job-awesomeness formula for me. To understand it, you ... you have to adjust the 11.6% and 88.4% accordingly. I'll leave it to you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  my hypotheses about Afrikaans. And then - for once! - I'll be able to ... , incidentally, I started doing a couple weeks ago thanks to Netflix and Amazon ... , and actually got to some pretty exciting highs - including writing an

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C ... Square, Somerville. Caption goes with painting and does not count as a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  pretty generic birch forest and there wasn’t much to see. if i wanted to ... walked. and so the idea slowly came to me: what if i just kept on walking ... the east and set in the west. i looked up at the sun; time to chase the

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... relieving— none of that pressure to 'forge new bonds' and make small talk. All ... times, caught a couple of their names, and shyly excused myself once I had

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025