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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... knew they would be. I came to MIT completely unprepared. My background in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  Chicagoland Gallery[/caption] Beading in particular is how I honor my Ukrainian ... recap of what I did between graduating and becoming a full-time artist (in the most non-linear path I could find on Canva): Somewhere in there

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  how many unread emails I had in my inbox, decide to skip my HASS class ... in the email. I decided that if I hadn’t already sent it I would have ... ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  second spiel about how I’m majoring in math and really interested in ... education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... point: I've started drinking less coffee(?!?!) truly wild. Who would ... I haven't! Yay! Insert digression here:   When I was in my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ! fanfic. in other words, I was incredibly unpopular in middle school ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about ... : the two psets stashed in my purse :([/caption] the next day, I dropped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say ... month or so in Rome, I was in my “tentative” phase where I ... people rode the bus, partially because the bus I would take was usually

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  how to handle fucking up in a more real-world sense than I ever could ... would be an amazing experience. In some ways, the fall was was amazing ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  into words, I had slowly become someone who wrote with reception in mind. Whenever I published a blog post, I would check it every single day. I would ... content with it. I constantly monitored the comments. How many people were

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  :05 PM. I was really nervous that I would really struggle in the class, but ... , meaning I dropped that immediately because there was no way my grade would ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  that I would play one of THE characters in THE chorus line. It was a ... saw myself smiling in the mirror during the jazz combo, or I would share ... I thought I would be okay a whole three weeks out, but even during

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... post 25 things about yourself in the comments. HA. I'm enabling your high ... person today that I thought I would be. I thought I'd never be an engineer

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  bus stopped it was 6 AM and nothing was in English. I took this to mean ... over 18 in order to attend Toy Fair. Apparently Maddie and I don't look ... at us but before she can say anything I chime in. "We're over 18

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  enough challenges in life or in academics and would cave the first time I ... for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  I spent the last few days thinking about how I felt about the murder ... even in my quiet quarantined home. Tears, anger, frustration… I had been ... ” violence that would ensue had these men been anything but white. I couldn

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... blogpost was 3) I am happy and loving living in the Delta Phi Epsilon house ... people moved into the house and I've gotten to know a lot of people in it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... , I would provide shelter or food for them, resulting in a symbiotic ... the chocolate, imagining how the ants would create paths and patches in

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  asked in the last post how I got this job. Actually, I Googled ... I did something today that I had previously sworn I would never do. I joined College Confidential. I finally decided that, no matter how

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  research on what the VR trends would be in 2017 and found out that a lot VR ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... January 5th, I was in Vegas.     Vegas was like a dream

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017