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  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  . I’m so disappointed in myself — even though I know that for me, I ... ’t even have the salty tears to show for it. I’m sure I was hosed in past ... , it would be so easy for me to lose myself in the jadedness and void of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  of building and configuring an 8TB server for them. It was nerd ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... published in Popular Science and friends who build something amazing and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  the fall? We talked for half an hour. And then he left for the airport. I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed ... part of the reason was that I expected to stay in my room for longer. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  have lived in for the last three years, shutting the window because ... where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks ... and more improved. Looking back, I've completed the requirements for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit, not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most ... restriction was good for everyone, in part because it reinforces the idea that

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten ... listening to videos. At 7 pm everyone wants dinner, so if I'm looking for ... people I've known for the past 4-6 years. I'm looking forwards to spending

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... . I often find myself trying to find an optimal solution, when in fact ... a little more. Saying yes more on an impulse. Wandering for the sake

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... for the cool girl in school was what it felt like to be straight. And I ... and looked at myself in the mirror and mouthed, not said, just mouthed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... explaining something very simple, in an unpretentious way. She makes this class ... brain turned to mush in the classroom, and math was an hour of reading

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  that care for each other in an environment that also has a reputation for ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015 ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided ... [/caption] I started looking for inspiration and was pleased to find that while ... iron look like play dough. You can squash a workpiece in seconds when it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  days. Day 1 involved an 8:30am call time in Building 68 (not the Koch ... Digital Learning. For me, it was probably an 11 or 12 hour day, but my only ... hadn't worked in a lab for about a year at that point, and deliver a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in ... . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  person in general. I wouldn’t trade my experience at MIT for anything and I ... people this is wild, especially for someone like me who has always lived in an area with a very large black population. However, for some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the ... upperclassmen put together an informal review session for the freshmen on the team ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  problems for hours, then told them to someone, then watched them solve it in ... I can even pin down an identity that will stay with me for the rest of ... I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  is the steepest wooden rollercoaster on Earth: it starts with an eight ... gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... -day party before term starts when frosh find their home(s) at MIT, in every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s the only dish that every adult in my immediate family has cooked for me ... an unfamiliar ethnic food in the presence of peers unfamiliar with said ... themselves. 2. meal-prepping for ~42 people in my living group (pika) The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  channels, about what was going on. How I had an essay due in one of my ... experienced an outpouring of warmth, even in leaving. The MIT community as a ... Previously: Boomeranging. Content warnings for detailed discussion

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015