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• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... 't change the fact that there is only so much effort i can pour into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  more and more about my own freshman year - in particular, the choices I ... other Greek men, I have a great deal of pride in not only my own ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... friend^2s and friend^3s were there, so I felt like I wouldn't fit in. Plus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  myself I was starring in. And for the most part, I would argue these ... everything in between.   In Barbie, it’s unknown where the Kens go when ... a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  of being in the intellectual and geographical center of where the ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  research. I am a UROP in the Sheng laboratory, where I've worked since the ... keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... drop off my stuff. I then walk to the nearby Cottage Inn, where the ECs ... . 8:30pm. I arrive back at my parents' house, where I'm staying. There

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those ... know where to look, and $2.75 in Amtrak fine dining. My wallet is sad. I ... catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are ... to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  ), and being social (because I can’t live with being a shut-in) So that ... just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Hogwarts a police state where you can’t be in the halls on a weekend in broad ... has a great atmosphere. You can imagine where a vampire might come in ... Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  in our CMS, so I ripped it down and reuploaded. The original, with ... email so I can fix."]read the transcript[/annotation] and/or the coverage ... ;feature=youtu.be In my last post, I wrote: On a day like today, I find myself thinking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... hard to get caught up in this experience and miss the whole takeoff. I

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . obviously i can’t prove this is what happened in each scenario, but i believe ... damaging ways trust, i’ve decided, is really about power. as in, i can ... . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  world Where in the world is all the time? So many things I still don ... course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by']I can't believe it ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  .'"]childhood.[/annotation] There's usually food in the house, laundry doesn't cost $2.50, and I can take long showers. I can watch cable TV on an actual TV. My car is in the ... in a place like Cambridge where paying with cash is a hassle. If I go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019