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• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Rachel, and I love course 3 (materials science).  I love looking at how materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours and hours.  I've mostly focused my research in the past on biodegradable

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  ’s curiosity. When I ask Chris how he got into chemistry, he tells me about ... say I can’t help but be myself. “You wear your heart on your sleeve ... that’s what I find so compelling in other people, too. Reckless curiosity

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week, so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston. Everything below is within walking distance of MIT -- and I'm not one of those

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed ... only way I can experience catharsis is by putting my whole self out there

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  how much I enjoyed being in the makerspace, making physical objects that ... ! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation & ... ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  familiar with Redux Toolkit, I can now think in the level of "do some action ... into smaller parts, like how I'd schedule tasks and run them in parallel ... I'm working on is too large, I find that I can't get in the zone. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical ... ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the ... shoot me an email, and I can forward it on to her. Watch the videos! You

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  and head over to play. It is lots of fun. Or maybe I can talk about how ... earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... than me >:("][/annotation] Course? 14 and 18. (In which I usually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like hollow shells with memories echoed in its crevices, both good and bad. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... cheerleading and research?" I do have a paper which is currently in revision for ... clarify what I said about masters' degrees in the sciences not being

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  I had a Subway sandwich for the first time in almost a year and how ... In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  plan in retrospect, but in the moment, I remember how I didn’t know what ... . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... firmly in the back of my throat -- out, I finally came up with a simple

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• 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 / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  can’t get jobs at career fairs. I can’t emphasize this enough: this ... . Disclaimer: most of these people were working in Computer Science—but I also ... programming classes, but I’d never worked in a tech company before. But by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  i can see how far others get when they push off and glide, or see how ... underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been in that half several times now, and i'm lucky that i've never really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  entire show that Valjean never sings at all. I was Javert in my high ... mutilated me recently, I posted the much-requested "before" picture in my last ... second day of classes and I have now had every class in my schedule at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... passed. In the beginning, it was like a full-blown middle-school crush. I ... Michael Waldrep. October and September: I took weekends away. I camped in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014