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• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  shy and afraid of us, so I—in typical dumb 10-year old fashion—would ... soon as I stepped in the room where she would be put down, I felt an ... lucky to have had her in my life, and I know how much joy she brought

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  . Last fall, I saw it would actually be offered in the spring and taught by ... Direction because I thought it would be interesting to evaluate how being an ... world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  thinking recently about how I love Tucson but I may never live here again ... in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... I started telling my mom about MechE, how I’d grown with it and how

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

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  awesome, but I'm not sure how one would be able to take such a tour. Maybe ... .03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the yarn intertwines, my heart can mend too. I never realized I would ... . Who would've known that ten years later, I would still be knitting? I ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  , in second grade. I got a little cup taped to my desk and I would watch ... In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... these days. Adapting.   . . .   I grew up in that house, but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... friends asked me how I was doing: The passage was so narrow that I had to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  walked into a door with my nose in a book. How I didn’t break my neck going ... coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... , everything looks nicer in lowercase. maybe i'll stop capitalizing now, bwahaha

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  wondering, how much would a so-so interview hurt chances of admission in the ... . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  in Fall 2007. It certainly showed me how much I liked physics, though ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... original. My second UROP I started in Summer 2006, and it was undeniably the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  , Chris '06 and Wes '07, allow me to test how obnoxious my flash would be ... auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  reminded me of how much I love media, but I don't really know what that would ... creation and lead the team in very cool directions. But I don't know how? Or ... : Where can I start and how do I know? I've tried my hand in media studies

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... difficult to cultivate in their children. While I did ultimately answer the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help. Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep ... showcases, meme tags. In the past eight months, I've learned how to manage my ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its warmth. "I finished the GIRS, am in a super romantic relationship with ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018