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  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed “Shakespeare.” The book was about astronomy research at an observatory in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; i look smaller in all the mirrors  that make you better    if ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many opportunities to pursue the things I was interested in, I feel very grateful to be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on ... future competitions and applications! Whether or not we compete in a sub ... in recruiting? Audrey: We are looking for all majors and years! From

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... , which we do in 6.UAT to learn about things like recovery. What do you do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in the mid-1900s. Its members are sometimes found in the depths of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  essentially whatever they want: take classes, participate in random activities ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a ... up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve ... ’ll wallow in self pity and rotten poetry until you wither away

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  fondness in my heart for that[annotation note="Lydia wrote about this once ... could not enter the US with me. Then I had a crazy idea. This was in late June, before any plans were made in earnest, and so it really was just a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  through bare words, but also through context that exists separately in the ... partake in such an unsavoury activity.) During this busy and exhausting ... [annotation note="In EC, freshmen often live in doubles and upperclassmen almost all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th ... things to blog about: my "blog backlog" in Trello is stacked deep with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  graduating), in the embedded webcast above.  On Wednesday night, I had the ... destabilization, of an inevitable shift in your identity, of a sense of who, what ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  This semester, in MIT terms, is “chill.” With only one technical ... in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical classes. I do, but in moderation. In fact, I’m a huge fan of my one

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... , a version of multivariable calculus that starts in the fall and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  complete internships or study abroad in some cases, I spent my first IAP here ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... first classroom is in a decently sized lecture hall, so I spend that time

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... our socks in pairs. And we have been walking in mismatched socks every ... speaker. We just walked and jammed without a care in the world. - Another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... you alone in the kitchen you’d probably burn the place down. But in the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  deal in the habits of atoms and molecules, economics explores those of ... normative component of the discipline, in contrast, tackles a different type ... enact in order to best pursue a successful economy? Or more

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... , for living in a suite with friends next semester, and adding new

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... pay for in full, where you are the master of the domain, kitchen and ... , objectively, but for me it’s a big deal. I finally have HBO access. Another in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016