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• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  friends I assume everyone thinks I'm weak. I forget why the thought of ... motions -- might make me stressed, so I assume I'm just lazy. I like the ... 't going away.   That was year seven of my carpal tunnel saga. Now I'm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with ... . I like to think I'm good at it for someone who doesn't know any ... , and anyway I'm not in such good standing among people who do know

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline exec. I'm now President of the club during one of the weirdest ... . Since CPW was probably the reason I comMITted, I'm excited to contribute ... my first semester at MIT, which I’m beyond grateful for.  Since then

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  Hi all! My name is Catherine J. ‘22. I’m studying Computer Science (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... -October. I’m happy to say that each time I’ve taken the PFA I’ve gotten a

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

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  while you guys. I'm happy to report that I'm alive and I'm actually doing ... ). I'm not sure if this is something I picked up from others or if it ... day by scribbling some reflections into a journal. If I'm lucky, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of ... separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of ... 's exactly what I'm doing! 17.447: Cybersecurity 21W.755: Writing and Reading

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... it, I realized it was my dream UROP! I'm serious when I say that ... Point presentation, I show the child I'm working with scenarios, ask Wilbur to describe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  ’s finally hitting me that I’m not just in an entirely new country, but also in ... part of me that doesn’t feel like I’m in a new place though. That in some ... ). I'm told that many of them are the same age as me. Some even younger

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... power to accept or reject you. I always heard people say “Oh, I’m not sure ... kidding? My hopes were just about as high as the ISS. I’m still figuring

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  common but I'm unsure: before sentence-ending emojis or emoticons, I will ... to write in for the blogs, since it comes most naturally to me. i'm ... , not the main reason) might be that when i blog and when i blog only, i'm

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right ... weeks. It's taking sort of list form because I'm a big fan of lists as ...  QuestBridge and which will soon begin for Early Action. So the next few weeks I'm going to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... , excitable, carefree girl I’m telling you to picture isn’t so different from winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA, where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 - 100 ... resources for one family. So I guess I’m adjusting to suburban life: surprise

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from ... , maintain work-life balance. It's safe to say I'm a different person than the one that left MIT. I'd like to think I'm more comfortable in public (and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for them personally. But yeah, I dunno. I’m not one hundred percent

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  ; I'm there less than half the day, and even then, it's mostly to work ... /faith I tend to be skeptical about outcomes. Often, I'm right but not happy ... -explanatory. I used to be more abrasive but funnier. I think I'm hap impact

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  power curves and King of the Mountain/Queen of the Mountain (KoM/QoM ... . '14 joined me in my quest for a downhill KoM, but we got stuck behind a ... coated pavement was the highlight of the trip for me, and I’m excited to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  , these are the various extracurricular things that I'm involved with this ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... . This fall, I'm preparing to teach two classes for ESP's big Splash event

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... results, findings, and analysis. Not to mention I'm staying gainfully ... . Sometimes I'll consider a personal project I'm not attending to, or even a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  I'm now halfway through my undergraduate career at MIT, which means ... 're interested, here's more detail on the classes I'm taking this fall: 8 ... Physics I) which I took last semester. I'm nervous; there's only one exam in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012