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• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... up here in Cambridge and I'm glad of it. It's easy to not know, but

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  from Diane, and decided that as long as I was in Harrisburg, I would get ... machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in ... 8th grade, I had the (probably misguided) idea that I would look just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  time down from nearly 11 minutes to just under 7. "How would I do that ... 2012 As I read the remarks, I reflected on the truth that I found in his address, and the truth that I found in those specific words that I quoted

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  how to articularte it.  I've spent countless hours after work sitting with a mug of tea contemplating how I've reached the point I'm at. If you had asked me three years ago what I would be doing right now, you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  breath I would curse myself for not being interested in STEM enough, for ... I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I

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

  thank you notes before i go

  

  from what I wrote in your letter. I have always known Emma would be the ... around you really does feel as though I've been transported in some manic ... -eye you when you play a video in a library without any headphones in, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... am dancing. I'm also back in Florida, having moved out of Senior House for the summer. After some panic that I'd be jobless and living in a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the world. in small moments, i see over and over again how people choose ... today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  is Azerbaijanian" all of which I learned how to say in middle school ... it were true, why would I need to tell somebody in France that my ... have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  and buries me underneath it. How I struggle to find oxygen in this ... 've always liked just sitting in whatever vehicle it may be. I loved being in ... the station and I must interrupt the quiet peace I've found in transit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you picked over the summer, but come on, would you buy a house before you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same ... like basically ending and I can just become *one with the nature* here in

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep ... how I endured eight excruciatingly-foodless hours today while I migrated

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn ... asked about far too often >_<), I would recommend taking it as an

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... whole seemed so abstract and so distant that I basically thought it would ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... friend Lex, who I hadn't seen in ages, dropped by my office. Back when we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  where I test the limits of how one can graduate from MIT. Perfect for ... [/annotation] 24 26.5 (The Course 6 classes are highlighted in bold.) Wait, how ... Technology would be both 3.155 in [annotation note="Materials Science and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... them.   STEP 2: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN COLLEGE. This is a little easier than step one, because if you didn't learn how to drive in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024