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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  . Supposedly, students that are accepted to MIT are “well-rounded.” In reality ... could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2 ... of how I could use the course material to design it. Stress, beam

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... -person local, in-person far away, in-person fly-to-CA-on-short-notice), and type ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  tone or idiom, because I wouldn’t know how to manage those things in ... disposable camera I’d taken pictures on to CVS and get its film developed, in ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  ", and how it's natural for us to tell people things in a way that makes it ... importance because you might just pay attention to the little things and get ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  College. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I ... ago. I tried to reproduce the first picture in the post I linked. But ... . Look at all the grass around it. Look at how tempting that grass is to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert ... , naturally, I thought that I ~had~ to be an extrovert in order to be successful

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... :30 (with our Mexican take-out food in hand) to claim second-row seats, which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... refreshing to make memories that are anchored in places beyond my bedroom. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  have enough time to get to know everyone i wanted to even though i ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... lot of time worrying about how I’m going to survive in a professional ... never show up on a resume or in a job interview. I’m trying to learn how

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  help get them ready to start blogging. But first! The last two weeks or ... , which is part of how housing is assigned. According to MIT's Dormitory ... events that will help you get to know the different residential communities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... and I know that I know how to keep moving forward. All through this ... long ago. My own blogs are, to me, primarily a benchmark of how I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an ... . I get to show off how much I’ve improved, and I get to watch my ... day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  contrast was pretty tricky to get right, but I'm pretty happy with how it ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home ... for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and ... you have to type this information again and again and again, in various

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  second just reminded me how it's never too late to be in charge of what you ... be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting ... get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• 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