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  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  reader? That changes everything wait I'm not ready yet I haven't planned ... 's why I'm not yet a clean slate for my upcoming senior year. Also I have ... ! And also according to a recent emaill, if I don't blog, I will get fired

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I have a test over in 5 hours". IAP in fact stands for "It's Awesome. Period". Anyway, my sleep schedule is still experiencing a phase shift

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... night was spent with great laughter, deep questions and a good amount of serious reflection. After a thirty minute act geared around refugee and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  realize now that I'm a blog behind so enjoy this extra little blog. I just ... extracurriculars is hard. Don't take five classes unless you a) know you can handle ... a year, she probably wouldn't have believed you. Prior to MIT, I only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  to preface this with my opinion that i don’t think this is a ... okay. a bit worse than last week. a bit better than last week. i’m on top ... , when i’m lining up to get food from the dining hall, no, i don’t feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don't ... , which is why i'm not completely bummed out about the class. but i am a bit ... while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  -debacle. This also made a fair amount of sense and isn't that random. I took AP ... biology that isn't [annotation note="okay maybe I still don't know a lot ... doesn't have that I-will-spend-the-rest-of-my-life-rotting-under-the-fluorescent-lighting-of-a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  . i don't have a family to celebrate thanksgiving with, which i guess ... spent it alone. which, to be honest, isn't that much of a change of what i ... on a post about the class for three weeks now, and i'm really hoping to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  to a friend that I wasn’t able to lose any weight. I think he was sick ... learned how to eat.” Hmm, it is a good book. But I’m still eating cupcakes ... . Janyce is a huge Patti Smith fan and I’m a big Robert Mapplethorpe fan. It

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  , since I don't actually have one. I do know a freshman or two who has ... . I'll shut up now, since I don't actually know what I'm talking about ... thought into this, and I didn't actually go around telling people "Hey! I'm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  a required class for my major, so I’m going to do my best and hope for ... can’t see an electron whizzing around in space in E&M), but it ... to CS Programming in Python: I’m awful at programming under a time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... . I'm sure that made very little sense (it's a very confusing assay ... , and since I'm a workaholic who works 15 hours a week during term... well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  . Which maybe feels a bit worse. Don’t get me wrong–I’m still a nerd, and ... we weren’t the funniest friend, or the best listener, but we had a ... . But I don’t beat myself up for not being a professional basketball

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  something I have to rebuild. I was a pretty lonely high schooler. I didn't ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people ... the situation was my fault--I'm a natural introvert and boredom and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post ... want to improve into a few goals. Like, I haven't been eating well and ... turns out that most of it doesn't matter, I've taken a lot more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  don't know. That's a HARD class.” I guess the MIT freshman mentality was ... don't get polar/cylindrical/spherical coordinates yet I'm so screwed omg ... 97..." (later Monday) "My recitation T.A. gave me entirely DIFFERENT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  would be a great idea because I'm planning on taking it next semester and ... . It feels like I'm a quitter. I'm not doing any of the extracurriculars ... doesn't feel like I'm doing much at all, but I'm also doing so much at the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  dancing. Don't know when I'll stop. It's a different kind of excitement ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! So so sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  astounding!! i'm currently living near the MIT Museum, which is a couple of ... with my ~beautiful new bike~ in hand. reasons why i didn't want to get a ... to how walking feels. what if you can't find a bike stand??? this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  to actually write a blog. Life has been good, but busy. I’m taking ... would say to one another in a different world. I'm hungry for the real ... .02: Multivariable Calculus I haven't taken a math class since, oh lords, early 2019

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021