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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  find out where else I had gotten into, but in the long run that was kind ... now made it's way into my blog, like several other songs I can think of ... all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has ... think I can confidently generalize that we all like a challenge. (Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... I’ve been in a bit of a post-application-season pre

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  speak Mandarin in a professional setting. Will: Before MIT, I can recall ... belief and helped me grow in confidence. I don't even know where to start ... and family in East Asia. I can't express enough how valuable this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game ... because i realized in may that i could actually attend this year, and immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  in what I'm learning. And I don't really know where to go from here, or ... and b) 18.02 is asynchronous, meaning I can watch lectures ... (Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-2PM), when I am in 8.021 giving my full effort and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  I would, but perhaps the same life lesson can hit you in waves, each ... I can outrun everything, but where I can handle most things. Not a ... lungs wheezed for air, someday I would reach that place, the place where

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close ... fundraisers, a development that I am personally pretty excited about. In the ... them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on ... squash, football, or chess - people who can play Set faster that I can deal ... to major in anything evenly divisible by three. I am not making any of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  been given an actual office in CAVS where we host "office hours" (open ... Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge. As I mentioned ... giant paintings in giant frames, buying giant food, baking a giant cake

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14.33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we ... graduated. i have no idea where, geographically, i'll be in two years (though

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  I wanted no part in. It wasn’t until I went to high school, where I ... in its foods, language, and people. And through all this, I can now say ... was so shit, but regardless! I started writing my essays in early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  washing machines and ridiculous gyroscopes in 8.01, I felt pretty certain ... .02 curriculum. I mean, isn't that why the class numbers end in the same 3 digits? In any case, I was pretty scared. Then the first week of classes came

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  journaling as much as I've wanted, and I've slowly transitioned from writing in ... .) Buy/Make Holiday Presents Practical suggestion! I like making any sort ... matter the outcome, I wrote a thank-you card for someone in my life. It

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there ... 'm only doing all of these things in the first place is because i care about ... die. i'm literally writing this in public trying my best not to cry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... stomach cancer, I found out. She was diagnosed with ductal breast cancer in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to ... ’ve dated at MIT. (I don’t get it either.) Masha makes wraps in WILG’s tiny

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  'm standing on a mountain looking out On the street, and I can hear kids in low ... classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a ... few days in contrast to how much free time I had over IAP. I feel like I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020