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  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  days. it took a lot of mental energy to write something every week, but ... barely know what to do with. the present is really such a funny thing. it ... next house. it felt good to finally be earning my own money, and spend my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... it is.) More than just being around here though, he has served on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  one idea. Which is easier said than done. Listen to Ira Glass – He ... creative work that you think is good. It's frustrating, especially when you ... hesitated mightily. But she convinced me to give it a shot because most

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It’s ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold ... asked to hold off on posting until this challenge was over. Maybe it only

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  would hear statements like “it is so much easier for people like you to ... whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... 't then you don't. It is as simple as that. I remember back in school the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  is dampen it. To catch someone who is falling over, you can't just ... ’t careful, and it will wear you down even if you are. The best we can do is to ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  this problem, he said, is rest. Sometimes, it just takes time to heal ... , because it is impossible for me to separate MIT from the Marathon. They fit ... believed that what stands in the way becomes the way: it is only by moving to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  -wide chapter is the lack of housing options. It’s difficult to find a place where ... you don’t realize how refreshing it is to leave until you actually do ... different organizations is also really valuable. Moreover, it’s important to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I ... -day Dynasty family line. True to my wishes, it’s so big now that we’ve never been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’re looking for! We encourage you to seriously consider applying to Penn.” It ... about it. I was given rare access to the internet to find out more about ... Penn from its prestige to its exclusivity. I did try to think of why

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... , and it had been a long day. We still had cases to review, when a hush

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  at the end. :'( As such, it is almost impossible to cram for any exam ... of what the people around you are doing, it is the most important to ... *. There is no shame in not majoring in engineering**. It is okay to fail a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , where it is self-evidently life-altering even as we contemplate it. In ... didn't like it. I eventually transferred to yet another school. But I don ... knew from my friends and my research that it was going to be. This was an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... enough, it still is.   2. First time pulling an all-nighter. I ... . I realized I needed to sleep, so I ate a little more, and made it back

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  equilibrium, each number is chosen with inverse proportion to its value; however ... you against it: the game is actively designed to sow discord. There was ... it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my ... video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  maybe you just want to know what to heck it is. That’s why I numbered it ... support worker. But a microphone is a suprisingly handy thing to have – it ... it may surprise you to know that even an institution as old as MIT has

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  sure to note which is which. We'll continue the convention of "now ... don't get it."]"Bring more women to MIT".[/annotation] The author muses ... in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... long. Felt like forever to me, too, even thought it was only twenty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020