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  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  Spiders seen: 2 Classes I'm taking: 5 Classes I've thought about ... where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... hall when I went to take a shower. "I'm so sorry if you heard me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  that and talk about things that I'm looking forward to, things that help ... substitute. Winter break I'm really excited to go home this year! Christmas is ... presents and do reveals over Discord! Campus Life Frankly, I'm excited to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  , but I’m renting an apartment in Cambridge with two other lovely frosh ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] it's so pretty i could cry[/caption] Whenever I’m studying at the kitchen table and I look out at the river, I feel like I’m in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this ... reaching out to friends was hard for me, that I’m inclined to fall back into ... to complete me”, it’s more like “wow, I’m really out here solo, aren

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  servers I'm a part of, I've realized that there are certain things about MIT ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... currently excited about? After this, I'm heading to 9.46 Neuroscience of ... ! I’m also excited about the earrings I’m wearing. Last week, I went to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical ... a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I’m ... . Naturally, I picked it up immediately. I’m a bit of a skiing savant. I mean

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... own work. I know a lot of people who feel this way, but I don’t think I’m ... ,” and I agree with him that it doesn’t have to be. I’m not sure in reality

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I ... numerous pre-Spring Break deadlines and exceedingly poor sleep, but I’m used ... biology class I’ve taken at MIT, but I’m a 6-3, and the waning practicality

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  physics at some point, even if I'm not a physics major. But I felt like ... started doing research in the Isola lab this semester, and that's what I'm ... I'm working on is quite interesting. It's pretty hard for me to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  answer.  I’m happy. It sounds kind of silly that I even had to analyze my ... . But now I’m here. Only a couple months in, but here. And I am happy.  In fact, I think I’m happier in all the metrics that I use to measure my own

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  [annotation note="what some people might call a work ethic. but, I'm still not sure I ... —maybe an inch, maybe half an inch—and I finally thought, "Hey. I'm home here ... 't really know what I'm doing; or, at least, I don't feel like I'm making

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... he (very patiently) coached me through a game. It took an hour - I’m kind of painfully bad at chess right now. I’m also incredibly sucky at

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  good possible; that’s why i’m not an effective altruist of course there ... say about me? i’m reminded of a poem i enjoyed recently: “They aim to ... response to the question, but i’m pretty sure it was a combination of “not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I'm kinda ashamed that I'm faking my way through the humanities requirement by ... of screens and metal. This world of gas and lights. I'm leaving this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  of watering the backyard and suddenly I'm remembering how Kepler recruited Jacobi to the SI-5. I walk past the side of the house and I'm thinking about Lovelace's crew. I go in through the front door and I'm

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... cold, but I do it anyway when I’m down bad, which is, unfortunately, a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  Year Plans I'm incredibly excited for my gap year. Coming into college, I ... constrained living at home during the pandemic. I'm enjoying the increased ... I struggle to balance when I'm a full-time student. By "struggle to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is ... . I tell him I’ll go after I work on it alone for awhile. I’m exhausted ... to study in the coffee shop. Because I’m walking again I decide to take

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  , but I’m of the opinion that across dorms this experience generally ... have just lost theirs. I’m concerned that the aftershocks of the Senior ... tensions between the student body and the administration. I’m concerned that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017