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  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  that all my psets got done, and I learned that it’s okay to get an extension from S^3 when you’re literally too hosed to function. There are ... Structures) this semester - it was Chris Terman’s last semester teaching, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however ... (I say this lovingly, it’s an awesome class!).  All semester we have

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  better day, because it’s still a good idea lol) but maintain the self ... struggles exist, there’s still a deeply personal perspective problem that ... .”” Though this insight was shared through the lens of writing about women’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  effortlessly. Maybe the answer is in setting the stage early. Here’s what I did ... of Hokusai. Lounged on the cold polished floor of the Library’s ... friends keep me company. That’s more than the number of my personal cells

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  ) getting an early start. And that’s where the OME comes in! The Office of ... catch those marathons on VH1! (It’s OK, we’re cool here, you can profess ... Cod and Martha’s Vineyard). The OME plans cool things for the students

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  ; many of MIT’s buildings have their own quirks and eccentricities. none of ... atrocity, whether it’s tastefully provocative or just an eyesore, simmons has ... .   there’s a lot to unpack in this building, so let’s start with the

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  , because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of ... into the vastness of the box that I’m in. But it’s possible ... -M + Institute Lab, 12 units): This one’s a synthetic biology class where we

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  promised myself that I wouldn’t throw up again without my dad there. It’s a ... -right. It’s a story about two people, in love but breaking up anyway. There’s ... because I know the consequences of settling in. Because that’s what you do

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive ... being New Year’s, most tattoo parlors were closed. I joke with my friends ... getting New Year’s tattoos. It’s called Sacred Art, on 4th Avenue, which is

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

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  Tila patay na ang diwa My soul’s run out From trying to be Like everyone ... failure of a person. And I get it! It’s literally just my first year here at MIT. It’s not as if all of my friends are doing something, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  what’s next. It’s literally “a” and “new”. A new… what? You may be ... [annotation note='Listen to Rose-Colored Boy by Paramore. It’s so good ... Lobby 10, from flute ensembles to juggling acts. It’s funny watching

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own ... about their GPA yet. Biking to McDonald’s at ungodly hours, starting a ... “it’s fine, it’s PNR.” My upperclassmen friends would decline our

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  are wide, and the cars all know who’s boss. It’s fantastic. Except when ... whole herd of bikes[/caption] 8:15  I found the bakery! It’s a cute ... . I am an engineer now. It’s lucky I remember what a semi-colon is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/7xU2HMnvRcLsGDOwcq7hQI?si=a110f5fbcd514711 “What’s your favorite type ... . The screaming kind’s pretty cool.” Last week brought me to Copenhell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be ... ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... like I was bald. Everyone laughed at the time…I guess the 90s were ... unruly and fit with my general comportment. Here’s a picture of me from my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  thousand times since I’ve arrived at MIT, but it’s never phrased exactly like ... ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at ... these blogs, does not. So for Mom V. (<3), here’s a crash course

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  . Also, since the Hayden library is for the MIT community, there’s a much shorter wait time on popular books! Here’s my reading list for this year ... class is called Crazy Rich Asians, and it’s a detailed, dramatic plot that’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  quotes as we go through finals week. “It’s okay to understand that ... .” -Alissa Borshchencko “[Let’s change] this whole attitude of one-upping each other ... ’ and somehow that’s good. No, that’s terrible.” -Alissa Borshchencko “I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  easy for me to recognize why I tend to overthink a lot - and it’s because ... to remember that life is not absolute. It’s dynamic. It’s beautiful. It’s unpredictable. It’s crazy. It’s amusing. And it’s always changing. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025