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• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... walls have i been trapped in without ever realizing it?  there are rules ... 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

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in

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

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... 's filled with. MIT, in my experience, has been filled with essays and exams ... that barely matters in the broad scope of life. But they're fun details

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  existing productivity apps because they had limited formatting (in terms of ... summer, I finally started using Notion! It's an all-in-one workspace that ... in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  ="a volleyball anime lol i'm not even interested in sports ... spent binging 400+ chapters of it while in Japan four years ago"]Tower of ... friends again, I can't help but reconsider anime's presence in my life. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... breaking down in the middle of the loopty loop or like my legs just seized up ... even just students in general. This was a confession posted recently on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and provocative in such a volatile, fast-paced media world. Obviously, he's said some rather controversial, if not just blatantly offensive, things in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan ... crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... school (elementary/middle school) and high school in Nairobi and was within

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by ... Instagram in over a year, so my profile is cluttered with content from

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

   midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off, dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... things to say about everyone else. Really, we all loved being in that room ... audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved ... materialized and my daily calendar just symbolically slouched untouched in the ... class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  , dreams and struggles in the hopes that someone will benefit from my sharing ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target ... . MIT students are some of the best shooters in the country because we

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the ... analyze. Still, it was fantastic to finally talk to someone in person after

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but ... important work done in the 1970s concerning aflatoxin, had volunteered to ... IAP, and I have funding from a professor in the Biological Engineering

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... around 9:30, and started right in on the 18.03 pset that was due Friday. I ... all of my reading for my supercool HASS class (American Classics). In

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006