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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with ... each of the countries—I’ve put them on Google drive so you can check them

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... was designing and making my website. And I think, yeah, maybe I can. It ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  can be and how much I can accomplish. I can graduate from MIT. And that ... I would concentrate in, having taken three different subjects in three ... concentration in writing in one semester, and it got me thinking - maybe I could

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  below an A or a B in your life. And though I know nothing I can say will ... demanding I finish this post in which he addressed me as "kamber", and I knew ... Course 16, although I think that's spelled "camber". Can you tell I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that ... , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... you can see the wind in them before it hits you. 4:06 pm: I have desk ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can ... between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  )"]something involving Aizawa.[/annotation] I really can't emphasize how important he is ... out, because I think there's something cool about how I can still make ... . I honestly feel like I can't talk about how much I love Eizouken

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  the floor in a heap of mandibular disarray. #obliviouscodemonkey *I can ... was the first time I’ve ever exercised it in an industry setting. MIT ... -weighted average of every location I frequent in Cambridge! This might not actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how much fun MIT can be. Being the blogger that I am (willing to spend far

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... how to swim, just not with any style or grace. So I showed up on the ... laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that with keeping myself alive. Can you believe that? I have to remember to ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an ... 's taught me how to keep walking, even when I'm going against the wind. It's showed me exactly the value of knowing exactly how many smoots away I am

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  our utilities get to us—in fact, I can say with certainty that I know ... affects literally human being in the whole world. Period. I can use the ... A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  how human beings can be truly good, but there are also cases in which we ... , and D&D sword and throne room in another building. I got to stay in ... store so I could buy some good cheese. And everyone was so nice and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  arrival... I'm wondering how long I can get away without buying a real ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... Identity. At first I didn't know how to take the news. This placement was ... really make me confident in knowing that he'll be there whenever I have a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... gaming has led to an even further increase in nerdiness. Sometimes I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009