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  friendful life recently

  

  in the summer (and i do have a couple more posts planned for that), but ... ’m doing things that i’m genuinely interested in. and that’s more important ... me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  how you're feeling right now. Senior year is hard. I know that to be a ... previously mentioned, a few hours before, I rushed out there in my sweats. Fascinating fact that I forgot upon rushing outside in my sweats: Gheorghe

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to ... this is a necessary evil.) After freshman year, I got a new laptop and

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other ... we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... sidewalks, I’m reminded that a different kind of season defined by academic

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  increasing in uselessness.   I've been doing all that, and a lot of ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... . One that I've been working on is lovingly called pybot, a terrible bot

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  process of creating a remake. I could go on about how meta this is, and how ... . Only reason it's not a 10/10 is because FF7 is reserved in that spot, tbh ... ][/annotation] Narrative: 6/10. I do think that overall, it was a well-imagined narrative and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  that I am suddenly doing considerably worse than I expected in a subject ... soon as I sat down in a relatively quiet environment I've been doing ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  this contradicts the last point. That's how advice is sometimes. If I had ... post is by necessity a work in progress, so I'll be adding to the list ... see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I ... discovered that I actually liked programming a lot and wanted to do more of it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I ... about freshman admissions etc. Please keep in mind that MIT is a very ... there to do something fun when I need a study break. As far as

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  air that says, this could be you. Going to an art festival is, in a way ... happens is that when I leave enough space in my life, writing starts to fill ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  knows a Simon). But I can relate to him in the moment that he sings "We will win ourselves a home". Because that's how I feel when I really get ... point is, it's funny how if you have major changes in your life, like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought ... . I could tell that they just did it so I could stop squaking about how ... your best. That's it. Just do your best." I also remember thinking about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  simply what it is that you enjoy doing, and how you have gone about doing ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should ... , anyway. The interview is simply a way for you to tell us in person. Some

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  . The main problem, I think, is that Zoom fatigue is real. Staring at a ... , whatever, I’ll just meet people in the spring. I’ll do a sort of half gap ... has been a blessing in disguise, then, because it’s not my fault that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I do think that during the whole process with all the brochures I ... : Please keep in mind that these were the things that I found that were

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  confusion. I read in the itinerary that MIT would be bussing us from the ... people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually ... left my town that was 80 degrees with 100% humidity in Florida, and I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with ... foam was all in disarray. If I were doing cool hard stuff, the way it ... enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  design.  In the form of a limerick. Mine was: I'd say that design is an ... weeks, I've decided that Course 2 is, in the words of Kirsten, super legit ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013