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• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  to say goodbye to MIT in the way I would’ve liked. I finished my master ... , or the day before? When I think about endings, I think about how, in ... programming languages. I live in Seattle now, where I work on power management

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  lose skill in this case but I will be out of practice. It would feel like ... in the middle of the day. I was fleshing out ideas I would use again ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a ... thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in ... buys food (Which is what you need in order to live. You’ll find that ... dinner in Boston but mostly I’m a TechCash guy. I wonder if that has

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  like you in that kind of way ;)” vibe. In my mind I would not be happier ... of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  campus. ACF or Asian Christian Fellowship, how I ended up in that club as ... what's going on both in my life and in MIT at general! (and one day I ... what my first year here was like. In the video I skipped explaining a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... , but I found that happy medium between breaking into a sweat in my all

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  -campus and away from a computer so that I couldn't sit in my room refreshing ... finally, two days ago, I took a break from packing (how did I accumulate so much stuff? HOW?) and went hiking in the White Mountains, a ~2h45m drive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  ? Improbable. Graduation came and went and in just three months I would be ... ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to ... learned how to always be thinking ahead to what I would need to complete my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  tutor some students in physics, and I would then head home. Here, the day ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... sleep). Even so, some things never change, like how terrible I am at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  As I mentioned in[annotation note="which was uhhh a while ago oops ... some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about ... comfortable. I really enjoyed noticing how over time, some actions became more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  ingrained habit. When I was in high school, I would write about how sleep ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... going to be an end date to the time that I would spend in cramped

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  realities often, wondering if I hadn't gotten into MIT, if I would be in a ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in ... understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  barefoot to the dairy to buy a $2 ice block. I only realised that squirrels were real when I arrived in America. Even the night sky looks different ... that here – i sure had some reckonings with my first year in college =D

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  and push, know they would otherwise atrophy.”    I wrote this ... , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly ... formed.  Even for those bonds that didn’t last, I’m a firm believer in the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... interactive maps. Then, I took each entry in the list, grouped them by common ... Last spring, I took CMS.614, Network Cultures, taught by Petey. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  Snively would call this the bloggers' freebie post. I would disagree ... figure out how any one man can have that much information in his head ... . I wish the Biology department would promote these classes more and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009