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• 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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 / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  technically. It isn't a Course 6 requirement. Alright, do I at least ... succumbed, and I just don't feel good. I am rethinking. I've been thinking a ... I've gotten a small taste of what that is like, I'm wondering if I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• 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 / 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
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  , like a newborn baby does, that the world doesn't end when you do. I'm ... ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... , and that it was a thing I could do. And now, I'm well along that journey

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  the weather to be over 50 degrees. It's a simmering 70 degrees here--t ... We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by ... competition. Our plane, having been shipped last week in a big wooden crate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some time and read it, you won't regret it: The Prodigy Puzzle I'm glad the ... " - to feel they aren't demonized and will find a niche, but not to expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  Cambridge area. however, even if there wasn't a pandemic, I wouldn't be able to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... think about last year, I feel like I'm missing out on a host of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020