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• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  I'm not typically one for year-end reflections or goals, mostly ... feel overwhelmingly passionless. If anything, my passion is searching for ... because I lack this internal drive for anything I could fill my day with. I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  he'd write up a version of it as a guest post for the blogs. And he did ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome ... me for, I was this year's Undergraduate Association (UA) president! As

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time. I had signed up because I was a silly little frosh who was signing up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... applied for many classes which historically had low acceptance rates: a ... world felt right for the first time since covid ripped me away from Europe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... one-folder-for-all-my-classes routine and horrible inbox in high school

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... 's office gave up and took my forms anyway. 3.I've started taking notes in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  board voted to open up many more AP classes and now, to remain competitive ... scheduling so that it was impossible for students to take more than 2 or 3 AP ... of the program is not to pile on pressure for the benefit of a high

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  up there for CPW, I didn't seem to have service anywhere inside the ... memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... magic or not. for instance, at one point the characters discuss how oral ... episode that hit hardest for me was this one: “Most people spend their

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  comment sums up my expectations for the Secret Team and how I believe MIT ... VSVDbZUakc After realizing I've done a team update for the [annotation ... a good thing…I guess? Hmm, on second thought, and for legal reasons

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our ... i spent approximately zero months feeling grateful for the time i did

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  I once took for granted tasted like a Michelin star meal. On Sunday ... 10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science ... . After celebrating, we also planned for an upcoming fundraiser in Lobby 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  and the potential for the Leveraged Freedom Wheelchair (LFC) to be used ... week left. We have been traveling for the past few days – we were in Siem Reap for a little over 48 hours and are currently spending the

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  look for would be the laundry set up, kitchen and bathroom arrangements ... For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means ... we hope you'll like enough of what you see to want to apply for admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust ... there enough room, pans, pots, knives, ovens, stove elements, etc. for ... recipe? :-) Do people share the cost of staples for the hall and cook

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  up with each other. We chatted for a long time after the film was over ... musical wing of Next House, and every semester, we put up an extensive list ... , [annotation note="to be honest the story seems a little too convenient for me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  station chic) lost my family's luggage. We ended up spending hours in the ... meetups with Mathcampers in town for hunt. Then I locked in on web.lab again. For like two days and then I strayed down the lovely path of Bad Ideas

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  this blog. Limits define creativity, or whatever. I've been away for ... subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this ... with D-Lab. Self-built homes there require retrofitting for adequate

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025