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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I ... . So I look for a couple things when I'm TA-hunting (not in a Elmer Fudd

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... moving in another post, but what I didn’t mention was that when I dropped ... degrees out. I didn’t have my good jacket with me, because it was in a box

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  them, I promise :)))) what makes a study spot attractive? I started by ... I need a break from work"]windows[/annotation] large tables in the ... working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... train a neural network on it and see what it learns! i think i will give birth to a son blah refrigerator blah blah i think i will have to write in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... control of your breathing. 2. Feeling Safe Make sure you are in a safe space

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... asked that, in this case, a disciplinary action associated with meaningful, peaceful participation in a protest will not negatively impact their

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative ... 's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... , because the poster was in what they thought was a casual relationship, where

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... people. I felt like a failure! In my mind I had sunk to the lowest point

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  each other in Arabic. And what do I have? All of a sudden, I feel like I ... ’s in, but before that conversation, I viewed him as just that—someone who ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to

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

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... weeks. I can’t: Sit still in a lecture, can’t stop my eyes from running

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... week! And training for a marathon! What was I, Superdude? Seriously, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... vigilant about dental hygeine. In another sense, I'm taking a fiction ... 's the first fiction class I've taken in a long time, maybe even since

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  . I will miss it all. The energy. The people. The joy.  What a journey ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  't seem like there was ever a big identity WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE ... before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I ... 'T going to become a physicist before this summer. I did a complete one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October ... handle because I had a really weak background in calculus. For other ... -HW which is a writing-intensive class. I went about choosing a CI-HW in an

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three ... when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day ... look, here, I have a good explanation for why! So what if I’m less

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . My parents gave me my MacBook Pro as a gift before I left for MIT. It ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on ... interest in the classes I took, at competitive levels; a few constructive ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010