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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... . although I had no relationship experience, or life experience in general, pea ... how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... that this varies greatly between the branches, so I can only speak for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  how I came up with that completion percentage for Sidequest 10. In short ... my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... was, so I can't quite give myself 100% on this. Sidequest 2: Get my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  :  (metaphorical) There are no ceilings. When I was in high school, I knew (in some ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... classes I was interested in/ones that fulfilled requirements, I signed up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my ... Magazine as one of the 10 Best Entrepreneurship Classes in America.) I'd say ... build a viral events framework in a technology ecosystem), I've found that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite ... is done here is litigation-based and strictly confidential, I can

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The ... with the decision-making process. In High School, I did a lot with FIRST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  seems to follow? I can't keep my fucking mouth shut for once in my life ... that they've let me do. Simultaneously, my heart sank, as I realized how ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . how do you know when to pause working? with problem sets, i'd stop in ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... .033, we finished 6.036 grading in four hours, and i fit everything in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in ... , unfortunately.  Ukulele: I got a ukelele in the second half of 2020 and really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  flying into our eyes and nearly killing us, and also I fell asleep in the ... DID YOU KNOW? Sufjan Stevens' brother Marzuki finished 20th in the ... singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  have so many things to work on, so I hope that I can find it in me to ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :) ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the ... even in the cool loner way, regardless of how I played it off. It took ... through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... amulets. (Some scientists I know recently put up in their lab a statue of St

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  or fidget with my watch like I do in real life and instead can give ... In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in ... intimidating-looking cafe I saw in the neighborhood of my hotel, asked for a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... the window, and say something about the winter. That's how I knew that ... 't officially live on Conner 4 but well...as you can see from the list above, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... lot of topics in math which I hadn't encountered before. I also made

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  . I’ll write in a passing note in the introduction how “my childhood ... believe in what Lorde has said about how people don't change day-to-day or ... never seem too far but four years can feel like a lifetime. But I digress

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018