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  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  are either very large or very small, and generally do not open. But back ... — and spent about twice as much time doing so as I did for my first day of ... would choose MIT again. And I would do so knowing I could take advantage

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  difficult for me to willingly do uncomfortable, not-so-fun things in pursuit ... doing the problems I already knew how to do, because they were fun, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  road trip. She asked, “Do you ride?” “No, but I want to.” I bounced ... me, “Do you ride?” and I said, “not yet,” I wondered if I was lying ... asked. “We’re looking for talent to do shows like this, yes,” she said

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  ’d crave.    You do read, actually. Articles. You are assigned, on ... you can do anything, if you put in the time. Dig up the right grants ... to struggle through, and only two more years to do so.   I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  . He asks me how I am. I say I'm doing well. I ask him how he is. He says ... to. I tell him I go to Boston College. I do that when I'm feeling a ... and record an audio of myself speaking, which I've been doing in lieu of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you know MIT as well as you think you do? These facts will totally blow your ... humming and even doing a little jig in front of the Borderline murals. Even

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  this impulse might actually be doing me more harm than good, and that the ... them ever realizing i'd abused staff powers to do so. it wouldn’t have ... dangerous, but the fact that i do have them means that, for now at least

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid ... 's climate system, a topic I find much more interesting. I wonder if I'm doing ... 't really know what to do about it except to power through.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  subcultures of mit, i do actually take on group identities and it usually turns ... ever. (the other reasons are that i enjoy most of the work i do, and that ... ’t know if i want to change or in what directions i would. what i do know is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  tech intern doing web development things. This was my third summer ... what I was doing. All this to say that until this summer I was a ... parents were looking after me. Doing the same this summer was a lot harder

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... : I do not have a time machine to go back and study the same person ... cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... do a little shopping, I got some good food from Trader Joe's, we walked ... and do work with friends. One thing that's really stood out to me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... promised myself that no matter what, I wouldn't do any work until the Monday ... to be thankful for than usual. But at least we do have, here in our

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  people seeking where I hide, there is no way to do this empirically – no ... .  Doing well in this game was very luck dependent. To make my decision, I ... pick by just picking what I might actually do if we were playing Hide and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  to do during the academic year since i didn't have a bike! bike's are ... with people who have about as much control over their lives as you do ... what she's doing. barbecuing — my apartment has a communal area for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... friend Katherine's birthday! 9) A paper bag that we do not remember the ... back with him. We found them when doing laundry and they fell out of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  students find internships. Overall, I had no idea what I was doing ... wanted nothing to do with a snot-nosed frosh which is, well, pretty ... offices, doing resume and cover letter reviews. These also gave me huge

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  hoping to get around to doing: sleeping 14+ hours straight and taking ... everyone is doing okay, or at least, doing as best as you can under the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  floor because our router is in the basement. i wonder if i should do the ... want to pivot from doing software and pursue music instead, perhaps in a couple years. i saw myself becoming a musician, and i still do, but after

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... floor also jammed to it on my last night at MIT Do You Realize?? by The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020