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  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  . Here is how I am different now: I forgive more easily. I’ve learned that ... august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... 16[/caption] with a bike, that's a four-minute commute tops. i could ... get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me...i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  in recitation, and I finally feel like this is a Course 6 class that I ... in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This ... that's a skill that I'd like to develop this semester, both in classes

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

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  how to design and program a robot. They learned that by jumping in and ... Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... Championships in a few days, I thought I would share a bit of my experience with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  spirit. Why yes, it is my 19th birthday. How’d you know? While true, that’s ... Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room ... . I wish there was more that we could do. But there is also the ... , which is a UN organization that deals with sanitation and water issues in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will ... , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of ... ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester ... ’ll do that soon.) I’ll never know how much fun I could have had if I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  what i did at a particular point in time and when, as opposed to a list ...   i have a general color coding scheme: green are ... things like how hosed i am, scheduling conflicts, or randomly changing my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  'all posted as to how I do this month about staying fed. Maybe I have too much ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with ... to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... PIs telling them I was interested in what they were doing. It's actually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . Here's a series of photos in which I explain that: this is the ... Moines looks the same as my audience in Paris. As this is a college ... that you have to go to an Ivy or a Stanford or an MIT in order to become

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  I'm not an expert in a field that people care about. I always ... expert. What I do take pride in, though, is my understanding of the media ... of my friends. I think what's even more upsetting is that I do believe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  , this is assuming a lot of knowledge that I don’t have!“). The Book of ... a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn ... living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while.” Fiction

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  , or both. Even so, I know that having time to do things that I like is a ... is a true gem in its entirety, but the three main points that Petey ... realized that I have finite time as a student, and in as much as I would like

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  community back in high school, and how I hope to extend that love to the ... caring about my communities in college, and how that is informing the ... within an arms reach in a year.   I hope that my words can be of some help

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• 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 ... . i told a coworker that i don't know how to manage a work-life balance ... i felt lost, that even though i was given a big list of what to do and

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

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  equilibrium and how to cope with that.” In a similar vein, JLab is “systems aren ... it is closer to “how”). Initially, I thought that they (the powers ... ’t understand what other things could be causing something, how do I know what is

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Facebook that I clicked on while bored. But this is what I get out of ... Institvte. It's been a long three days. I don't really care how space ... wrapped in a Snuggie so that we look like an unwieldy, pregnant, fleece

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011