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• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Arizona desert, where I spent the remainder of my pre-college days in the ... cognitive sciences). If you can’t find me in class, I’m commonly found with my ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ...  size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... : I love that I can describe this problem in a single sentence: I want

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... important things in life is to be at peace with where you are and what you ... could tell you that MIT is not the only place where you can live your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and ... intertwined.   I remember high school as a blur of grey; in one word, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... come and the leaves come and they leave and i stand by the tree where you ... cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last &

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only ... believe in hope I believe I can touch the sky if I try. With you beside me ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go outside again from waves: I watched my wild youth Disappear in front of my ... get the feeling that I'm right where I belong Why am I the one always

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... catch up. I feel like I am constantly running in a race where I am doomed ... I. eulogies are beautiful but  can we talk about leaves before fall

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... pretty well on the psets, where I can look up what terms like "marginal ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . "Kith, I disagree. If you get in, you can handle staying in, for the most ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... -bagger - I've dabbled in computational, systems, cognitive, cellular, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... 'm glad that we ended up going. It's unlike anywhere else I've seen in my ... actually a recurring motif throughout the Passion Facade, although I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  responsibilities, I missed a critical time in my youth where I could have molded ... When I think about my earlier angry tears, I can’t tell where my anger is ... myself I have other skills I can bring, and I’m at college to learn.   In

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the ... , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  dream where I found out that Season 3 of The Bear was going to take place in the middle of Siberia. I woke up, tried to study, but ended up lying ... and the unfortunate effects it can produce. I'm going to make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  clearly and responds to all of our questions. I like that I can be casual in ... class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was ... content learned in lectures and provide recitation sheets where you apply

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  ” — where I’m stuck in my current location and Dylan stares at me menacingly ... ="electricity and magnetism"]8.02[/annotation] [annotation note="where I am really ... note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in ... “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... of enemies in seconds. And the fact that you can build functional

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  .org/blogs/entry/thirteen-things-to-do-over-iap-1-5), I spent the first half of IAP in sunny California where 50 ... convenience of all the labs in the vicinity. It's where I got my very first ... anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  . I managed to squeeze some time in to go into Boston in between picking ... community events in the morning, where people made signs and other art at City ... - what I - hoped for. I had felt the despair sinking in for months now

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019