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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  where I will sit in class and stare blankly at the board and wonder why I ... class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  because I feel like I am Good at math, but because I can feel small ways in ... find moments of happiness when and where I can. To ignore such moments of ... ’m hurting my career in moments where I focus on my mental health. In moments

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  made some breadsticks rolled around in crushed corn flakes. I eat that ... it. I spend the rest of the afternoon working in the Stud before ... these in stock from when I did a Costco run a couple weeks back. I eat it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite ... .T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  could the past eight weeks have gone by so quickly? I can still remember how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto ... clarify a point or answer a question I had. I remember turning in my first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... finishes in January. It's the realest class of all the classes I'm in, which

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  I are similar in that manner, where we both entered our four season ... old self couldn't. I can be loud and cringey in the dining hall, talk ... where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  report where I derived equations about the natural oscillation, center of mass of the frustum, etc. I can't even begin to describe what joy it ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  the hardest I've ever worked in a long, long time, but I'm really proud ... .704 I had a group project where we had to create a 7-9 minute video on ... Sulmona, a really tasty brunch spot in Central. After Sulmona, I headed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... . I assume this is where we were going... otherwise, why did I take a ... hiked from here all the way to the second peak you can see in the back

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... ? That’s fantastic! I can relax, travel, take some classes, get an

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  away, where  to come out is to stay in  your arms   i want my ... how, until I realize that this is the same world where  “the waitress ... out in an office where everyone else is a man, including one who “loves

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  ; this is a case where I can take whichever classes I want and see what ... “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I ... seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning ... voice in my head says, "I'll pay you $9.25 if you get out of bed right now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  I've come home and found a place where I can unabashedly be my loud ... embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... blogpost was 3) I am happy and loving living in the Delta Phi Epsilon house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  scan on his computer. I guess MIT is an environment where you can learn ... finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  in southern Californ--"Where?" I grew up in Los Angeles. "Okay ... follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all ... Center. I personally appreciated the strip, considering I'm in the camp of ... in awhile when I'm home for a break I run into another person who I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  where I fit in. It was a great feeling to eat breakfast before leaving on ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008