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• 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  ways it felt like my life was paused. (I'm sure lots of y'all can relate ... always going in the wrong direction no matter how hard you try. When I ... beginnings of deep friendships in the East Campus courtyard. I felt like a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  waving my hands around in the air. But from my point of view, I'm moving ... BeaconStreet, all of which are organizations I've volunteered for in the past before I ... objects onto the real world. And it's pretty freaking cool. I've been

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  at all. I can only work in a field directly related to my major. For ... . Plus, I had to pay $620 in summer tuition. After graduation, we can then ... mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  i could sit in front of the piano, know where all the keys were ... . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... ; let me give some more legitimate examples: i played piano briefly in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  study abroad opportunities as I can! The Plaza de España in Sevilla This ... about the program for two main reasons. First, I took AP Spanish in high ... taught entirely in Spanish*. But, that was three years ago, and I’ve never

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  -students. Oops. Sorry! I took some screenshots for your benefit, just so you can get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  ’m finally back in a place where I need scarves and hats, and now I can make ... plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  myself, but relative to my peers. I begin to imagine where I fall in the ... yes, I'm still doing really well for where I'm at. But I can't help but ... . Not only am I insecure about where I am in my major, but I'm jealous and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021