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• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  i already feel like an alum visiting mit, when i come to meetings, when i eat dinners with people, when i go to square dancing every week ... 's disturbing to me how painless it feels to be saying goodbye. two games i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... together. I was so surprised I was so easily able to form a friend group ... consequently broke up and we all moved to different dorms and eventually stopped

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  day that i’m aware of and enjoy adhering to, and i think those are ... either never actively chose to follow or chose and then forgot the choice ... intelligent things in conversations, which tends to begin as a deliberate choice

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw ... something more modern, more suited to whatever homeowners are looking for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  , attempting to escape the zoom rooms which fill my life now. i love the color ... described as a golden retriever bounding between everything from scrabble to whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other slew of things. Unfortunately, my break didn't exactly go according to plan. On December 20th, I went to Raymond's birthday party with Emma

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you want to spend all the time you can indoors where it's warm. This makes ... semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... , we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who wished to somehow alleviate my IHTFP feelings (then negative) but couldn ... trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host ... credit to Richard Beaubien and Marshall Goff who helped photograph the slam

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  's about time to blog about it. Turns out I'm just as bad as blogging things ... hours for no apparent reason. Hopefully my blurry photo does something to ... originally thought that we needed to report extra early so that we could have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful ... ...(I'm with Jeremy, my travel buddy to Mathcamp that year. He's also in MIT ... 't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World. (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post-graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering, headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  Now that I’ve survived enough midterms to know I won’t change my ... institute requirement. every MIT student has to take two semesters of calculus ... science class I’ve taken since high school, and I couldn’t be happier to be

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created ... robot Adam Hartz, and Adam personally came to look at my robot 😳😳😳 ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025