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• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  to think that I'd never get home in time for Christmas (this happened ... on rare earth elements, to be brief (more info in website!^^) If you ... . I actually just got out of a thermo test, and now I get to ponder

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  decorate the living room and what kitchen utensils to buy or get rid of. In ... team, a little overwhelmed, nagging each other in the chat to get their ... semester goes on; this post is my attempt to get them all organized and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around ... disparities, imagine how hard it must be to actually be in their shoes, and to ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at ... ’m hoping to see some other friends in the Midwest.  How it’s going so far ... confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  talking in Spanish anyway. She was a lost tourist who wanted to get to the ... legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the ... item. I was determined not to use Google Translate, in part because my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  'm Vietnamese, would you tell me about how to get a scholarship from MIT?" Hi Nam ... 's just an accepted social norm that in college people really want to get to ... tests i have to give to get admission in b.tech in computers." As far as

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don ... making negative progress in learning how to swim, the hardest class I ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  bask in the glow of getting the MIT fat packet. Once that moment is over, get back in the game because you have a big decision to make in the next ... , once your moment is over, you need to get back in the game as well

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction ... on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... never quite seem to figure that out and, in true tortoise-and-hare fashion

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would be happy to respond to, as well) about how we stay organized and how we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  (where I am) in the morning. You get to decide what you will do today, and ... factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own ... sometimes we get caught up in things that don't actually mean as much as we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  .01 when others are taking 18.02 - you'll all get to where you want to be in ... blog would never get written - so here goes. I'm also going to stray ... same applied for 7.013 in the spring. Alright - to be honest - it isn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus[/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... east coast doesn't hold a candle to the west coast in terms of japanese

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... how much effort I put into my classes, I can't seem to get a result that ... effort I put in to make a change. How long can I hope that this time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a CourseRoad and see how it fits! Want to see what it’s like to be Course < ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how ... used to say, “Walk in like you own the place.” Marching through the ... move very far away (Boston). Before coming to MIT, I had lived in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  important deadlines approach, everyone hops in to get the task done. Also ... " or "comparison" it can get tricky!  Finally, in order to test the ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the ... schedule, or the work that needs to get done, but it does mean I never have a ... things scheduled, then. Good that I know how to fill my weeknights and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food ... apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much ... how much time I've spent finding new places in the city. Everything is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic ... Jennifer's Comics. Jen is also a fantastic baker -- if you want to drool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006