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• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  fields and along beaches and amidst massive sequoias. Maybe the forgotten ... , everything felt fake. Days, hours, classes, and psets blended into a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  pick up my diploma, President Reif will say "wait, who are you? we don't have a diploma for you. do you even go here?" Or maybe in a little over

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store ... long are you in Ireland? — in Spanish, and I struggled to respond, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  shouldn’t have taken me that long to do so. The deans at S^3 understand that ... ’m considering taking 8.286 (The Early Universe) on listener status. The class is ... research on the expanding universe, and is only offered once every two years

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang ... developments in particle theory, baryogenesis, the inflationary universe model ... groups on a term-long project of their choice. Various written and oral

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  small village, the distances are not very long. However, it may change ... College is how I store my unicycle. Many generic universities, like MIT, don ... "] At generic universities like MIT, you might get puzzled looks when

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... thing. They are wonderful people. The BU (Boston University) Astronomy ... going to university in the Cambridge/Boston area: how many other awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester ... supervisors, all from different universities. I actually applied to this program ... (104 degrees over the weekend, in my new Fahrenheit vocabulary. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the world ... start on your degree. (For the vast majority, that’s not the case, and ... , and I never gave a passing thought to university admissions as a high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  the details of: - Her name is five letters long - Her name is vowel ... University of Pretoria in South Africa. I was just there, so I hung out and ... . Review: it's awesome but a very long lecture. We're gonna be reading a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let ... boba after a rough night a labmate making me a seven hour long playlist ... you are loved, and that no matter what the universe tries to throw at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  events as they happen.” i’ve spent so long trying to understand my ... universally. being the founder of a payments company, regardless of how ... far too long. a specific and flawed answer gives me more to work with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  from Zoom University in a little under 3 weeks. Legend has it, when I ... "]busy as a bee,[/annotation]and so was my inbox. I had long feared the ... much. But with this one, it turned out to be a good laugh after a long

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high ... cool place. Some people ask me questions along the lines of, "how long

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  universal or inescapable. My own self-improvement efforts became a private ... away, I stayed away for a long time. It was a slow reintroduction. My ... consciously invoke the long-standing synecdoche, confusing middle-class women

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  points, yogurt shops get one cause that's easier, and long bus commutes get ... have degrees from 3 different colleges and all of them have students ... California and it's 27 degrees right now and it's almost April. Not everything

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  coding we managed to get our gyro (which drifts 5 degrees) accurate to within .1 degrees. That made it a very useful tool. By three in the morning ... , in the long run it will be much more efficient and practical to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  degrees outside, and since I had sent an e-mail for my floor asking for ... wear my long-sleeve, heavy cotton, black, one-size-too-small floor shirt ... then I realized that 55 degrees was still pretty cold to be walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  's pretty long; feel free to skip to the sections you find interesting. also ... slowly, but surely, I was working towards completing my degrees. So, this ... particularly long Saturday, I dropped the class. I had gone five semesters

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  long time. I bought all the materials  the summer after high school, but ... art and write for so long, but something always comes up. I don’t know ... weren’t really good for blending. The hairs of the brushes were too long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021