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• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... tune in to lectures and access course materials and stuff. I thought this ... I used to be really passionate about in high school -- which mostly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having ... . e doesn't get used nearly as much, in my opinion. sure, there are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  each muscle in your body, and understanding how to create something ... year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing homes, in ... ="attachment_115159" align="aligncenter" width="400"] learned how to use a bunch of ... often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning was foreign to me, and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... obliged to finish. That was a great tactic back in middle school, when I had ... other one about Vikings that I had to read because I was quarantined in an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  one of the hardest things to get right in math pedagogy? [annotation ... useful skill is figuring out how to interest other people in solving your ... . The reason I want to emphasize this is because of how incredibly

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  that. Also, my little sister just got permission to get her first tattoo in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... here are some pictures/videos I have to add (in roughly chronological ... not translate well to text, was during a game in which they had to

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous ... to turn in your permission slips!), you're going to see the High Water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... 1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  at the Gates scholars, who not only got to meet Bill Gates in a smaller, more personal setting but also got to sit directly in front of the stage ... does it feel like to be one of the richest people in the world?' I'm way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to ... that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3 ... responses to the question "How many hours did you spend per week?" I tend to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process ... because it only charged my phone up to 31% after being plugged in all day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside ... , but what they grow to be” "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... portions in order to increase my endurance. 2. Brass Bear Deli: this would

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling ... -year-old a short bus ride away. One day, while I was explaining how to add

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little ... happens here is that oftentimes there isn't enough time to get it all down ... means 6PM to Midnight rehearsals everyday. In addition, I also have a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  (shocker, I know). This IAP, I'm getting back to reading in two ways: trying ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... cook more than I would normally have time to do! In addition to my usual

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... internal hoops. In an effort to get the blogs up and running as quickly as ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006