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  yeeting classes bye

  

  four a.m. psets would be for naught . . . plus, I felt uncomfortable with ... mathematics!"]majors[/annotation] and it wasn't a graduation requirement and I ... psetting for a subject I didn't care about. so I [annotation note

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don’t ... within a taped square on the other side of the gym. I don’t suppose ... and maybe do a little self-reflection. I haven’t worked on

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  in my last entry. I wanted to title this entry "Now I'm a little boy ... somehow find somewhere that takes a credit card and isn't touristy and ... a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  social relationships. since i'm not capable of striking up a conversation ... to admit, but i had a note on my phone that listed people who i didn't ... i'm not going to whip out a checklist to keep track of the friends i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  curious. "I don't know if I have." My boyfriend's a physics major, like me ... my face, packed up my things and stepped outside in a t-shirt and my ... outside, round-a-bout way to the library and promise that when I'm done and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  . And right now, I'm happy with where I'm at - I wouldn't say being a ... like a really good idea. But I’m happy with what I have, and I hope that ... translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I ... concentration (Philosophy, which could easily become a minor with some work). Don't ... around that time.) Though that story didn't have a picture perfect ending

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  there, there was a "help wanted" sign--so I'm hoping it'll still be there ... . I'm actually hoping for kind of a combination of the two at this point ... meantime, I'm really super glad that I have a passport, because Ruth '07

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  . Also, you can't sing, so you won't get a big part anyway. You got a ... Brain: "I call BS." Me: "No, really!" I showed up, sang "You Can't Get A ... part of Little Sally, sent a sad "oops, I probably shouldn't have done

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  , but that’s the problem. I feel like I’m on a rollercoaster, or some ... flying past at a breakneck speed. I’m trying to grab onto moments and ... like I’m a different person. Every week, something fundamentally changes

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  goodbye. what would've changed, if i had a semester instead of an hour? i'm ... in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... my time at M*T. All this has been fine, until this week when I've been

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I ... .02 (Macroeconomics), two candidates for a fifth class, were not truly feasible. But, I’m ... ) The only course I’m taking this semester that isn’t required for Course

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... experiences and turn them into a nice, clean-cut story. I don’t have the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life ... freshman, I didn’t stray too far from my intended path. I picked up a ... in a “I’m too good for these classes they’re not rigorous enough for me

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  was busy, sure, but it wasn't a disaster. Practice working harder ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  watch TV but I'm obsessed with Alias so I make time for it - haven't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going ... implement a lot of my requests into MyMIT - YES! 5) Well not this week but

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  . I'm mad at myself -- I'm at risk of failing a math class, and there ... somehow don't have any better options than what I'm currently doing. I ... support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  MIT? I'm a pretty avid classical violinist with a passion for chamber ... . Although I'm sure MIT's music program doesn't rival that of any conservatory ... minute straight, and there's a great crescendo where the choir chants, "T

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  , and I've left behind my past self but haven't yet entered a new one ... don't do that. But it still gets to you after a while. Sometimes it ... feels like I'm in a whirlwind, jumping from meeting to meeting with no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020