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• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  friends instead of a day of radical change and contemplation. I mostly ... year" but in reality it's just where I'm at right now, which may or may ... was a year of deduction. This is a pretty normal time in most people

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

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5 ... .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... interning at was closed for part of the summer, meaning I would have to come

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... vulnerability lies not in my habit of smiling at strangers, but in two things: my ... the people I saw on the streets) of smiling at strangers like I already

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  , so their residents get the feeling of being away from school at night ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... throughout elementary, middle and even high school. I am now one of them. The ... copious amounts of work I have to complete. I am thoroughly enjoying my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  fogged in the cold. I thought of my bookshelf at home, with this five ... I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... of Ancient Greece, which is my [annotation note= "CI-H/CI-M classes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  graduated, starting a new job at a nonprofit. At the end of every work day ... of light up poi at the dance part. I now spend more time with my ... ’t live up to my values or at the supposed lack of external progress in my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... first is I’m three days away from my first day at my [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  details about the Regular Action deadline. Other than a few hours of ... submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 to tonight, January 3, 2013, at 11:59pm EST ... this post - it is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  with a mug of tea contemplating how I've reached the point I'm at. If ... of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... international development.  It's amazing how things change. At this point in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  :30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry ... out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  painfully large stacks of notes to review. I'm feeling slightly panicked at ... . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals week for the fall semester. Here's how the bloggers (most of whom have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  course, a stop at Crazy Dough's, one of Boston's many fantastic pizza ... of helping us avoid food coma). I ended up spending quite a bit of time in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... feeling of distance and to give something more than my fundraising letter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went ... . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  test can sometimes be a very good thing at the end of term. Second, I ... ), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... of me with bad hair. Hee. And yes, sum1, MIT does have a marching band -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005