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• Blog / Extracurriculars

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  highest priority in life right now, I haven’t been doing near as much reflecting as I usually do), and so many things have happened in life that I ... in the past [latex]n[/latex] months. When the 2021s in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college [annotation note ... year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply ... extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  for the first time ever in my 3+ years here. The early ... "]sits on my shoulders[/annotation] is locked in a storage unit in Charlestown, waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  potentially useful item we had in our shop at the Edgerton Center- no matter how ... we met more team members who flew in for the competition. After a few ... small manufacturing problem in our composites cascaded into problem after

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a calculated, slower, reasoning System 2. I feel when I type in this kind of ... backspace quite frequently in search of better grammatical phrasing. I do

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... for a conference I’m presenting at in May. I had two other projects that ... semester doesn’t look like it’s going to be any easier. In fact, I got some

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  aware, the racial tensions in America are currently at an all-time high ... deaths of four hardworking police officers in Dallas, it feels like America ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... surreal weekend. It was my first time in the South, if we don’t count Los

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... —I’m majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry and have spent the last four years doing research in the Saeij lab on parasites and the Gilbert lab on

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... sad about my failures in high school, and I found out there are tons and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday ... taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  -nighters for fun than for schoolwork in the past four years. In chronological ... until I found myself sorting laundry at 4 in the morning in the basement ... years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but ... , because a little over a decade ago, in junior high, we were members of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  in the 'sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am ... 's practical isn't exactly, well, chic. Case in point: You may have seen this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  those in high school, since there's an entire section on the MIT admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my ... , etc) at my own pace. In the fall, I started kindergarten. Summers 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... different “names” in our respective languages for our numbers…all around the ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... am dancing. I'm also back in Florida, having moved out of Senior House for the summer. After some panic that I'd be jobless and living in a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007