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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is ... Downtown. I'm surprised this is the only Coldplay song I've referenced. The ... and Everglow also form part of my favorites. Then again, I'm not sure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  seven years. And now, as I graduate, I'm always, always, always thinking ... 't because saying that would simply just not be true. I'm not ready. I need to ... finish that blogpost with: I don’t know where I’m going, but I hope

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  the whole day. I’m too old to not get eight hours of sleep. But, it ... and ruin it once more."]ready.[/annotation] When I’m not sleep ... ago but I'm rewatching. This year I also watched Desperate Housewives

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  several emails, bumping the founders ("Hey! I'm in the Zoom." "Hey! Let me ... , I go to many classes and drop them quickly. If I buy junk food and I'm ... entire hour's worth of work, and was I really going to throw that away? I'm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  be there to catch me if I’m anything less than conventionally ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little ... existed before.   But sometimes, the only reason I’m doing work is

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 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…

  

  , hopefully this format makes sense. I'm donating half of the income that I ... , it feels far away. It was just yesterday — where has that gone? I’m not ... handful of days, even though I know that I’m different as a result of them

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I’m ... to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10 ... math and I’m tired   1:41 am: why don’t aquaporins have spec

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  worth noting that I rarely back up my computer. I'm just not that ... bottom makes it seem like I'm marking questions from a physics problem set. The next set is absolutely crochet hook sizes, but I'm not sure why they

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  as much time as possible with people. i'm most productive on my own ... up at 9 to sleeping at 4 am and waking up after 12 pm. and i'm not ... feel the need to...i'm basically a weeb hermit at this point. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  I enjoy what I’m learning in my classes, the relentless stream of ... other people cruising through harder classes just fine while I’m ... ’t even do a single pset problem on my own because i’m stupid and i drag my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E&M ... was really convenient to have the 3 camera layout! "Oh, wow I'm happy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  means I have two desks. I'm taking two classes this semester with take ... Discovery 2 and the soldering iron, which I'm pretty sad about, so I'm looking ... from "life" space. It feels weird and bittersweet, but I'm slowly

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... heart-warming, and I'm happy that students were able to receive them. So far, each class meeting has been fascinating and engaging; I'm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  Hello 2024s. I'm about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted ... , but many parts were actually quite difficult and painful. I'm not sure ... pressure was at play. I'm much more certain now about what my values are and

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

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... one of my two 20-hour UROPs didn't receive direct funding. I'm glad that ... video that illustrates our different floor cultures, and I'm one of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  habits. I'm a sucker for anything structured that makes me feel productive ... living with my friends than living at home. I'm not lonely at all, for one ... skewed since I'm only a rising sophomore and haven't engaged in all of this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  friends, which i am not. so, now that i'm in the midst of social distancing ... this book given that i'm only fifty pages in, but wow, its prose is ... prompt each day to freestyle to. i'm so excited about these opportunities

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier ... stay informed. Who are you?  I'm a new faculty at MIT in the Department ... generally at MIT)? I like building things and making things, and I'm very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  ="when i'm feeling motivated, i go in to lab at around noon, leave at 4 ... complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have ... , so i won't talk about it much more here. basically i'm just chugging

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  learning when it was time to ask for help on something I was stuck on. I’m ... diminishing feeling where it looks like I'm doing too little, and I punish ... there that I’m still here, quiet, learning, recharging, garnering content

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020