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  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  obituaries. I don’t really know how to narrativize it, but I imagine many ... pursue paths where my best qualities don’t get a chance to shine. I can ... someone. I can go to lectures and do my homework and pass my classes, but at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  or whatever at a particular fire alarm, and how cold it was. I know 3 ... him. Well, I can do that too. I got a little worried that the fire ... , "no, I do this EVERY TIME." As you can see, Gabe does look pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in ... early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs ... this point, but maybe later I can tell you more about Honduras (There ... I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  .♪ ♫Close up of the red thing in front of a building that's orange, Oh how I ... .♪ ♫And here's your typical pic of the Dome. Still can't believe I can call ... When I woke up this morning, I checked my Facebook (as any good

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . There's these corners that I can hide in and do my work. It's quiet, but ... . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in ... . Coding (almost) every day I wrote a 1.8k-word post about how tough

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked ... career in research, I needed a very specific plan. I had no plan, but that ... enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  , how much i'd changed in various eras of life, i said something about how ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  did years ago when he lived in floorpi. i tell him about how the culture ... , where i know if i put in enough hours, i can do it. if i ask the right ... these things, nor can i participate in them. it's always been easier not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two ... participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  world I came from and how I ended up in this strange little bubble on the other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of ... , I can't help but miss my house. My home. I miss waking up every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  done. I am graduating in February. I will be spending the Spring semester at MIT but not taking any classes. How awesome is that? I know someone ... passed the swim class but I can't really do anything except a terrible

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... students just how awesome the humanities and arts are here. I had great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  equilibrium, there is a limit to how much I can handle and still be happy ... like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This ... philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  Hey, blogs. How ya doing? Long time no see... Or, I guess, write ... . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I ... 't really remember if I had any resolutions in 2022, but in retrospect, I grew

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  all my extracurricular commitments, and I can’t emphasize how horrible ... how my grades said I did in the class, I was just happy that I learned ... classes too. I want to learn as much as I can in as little a time frame as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  , which is how you know I’m well and truly exhausted. Normally, playing and ... closest elementary school friends nor I can remember the silly acronym that ... scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... N4 O2 (sorry, I can't get subscripts to work) Well, I'm off to ... Logs of the Muses, but I'm sure to think of something I missed in this

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about ... these projects. So that's exactly what I'm doing! My friends in Oregon

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011