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• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . In short, I'm really excited for where this semester will take me. Stay ... . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... thoroughly convinced that I can improve them with practice. The lab class, 6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage ... carts available that students can use to wheel their luggage in. I was ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to fly until post-MIT - in the meanwhile, I'm mostly spending my time taking advantage of opportunities I didn't have at home ^_^)  In any case

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!" Here, I am ... teenage dream. I've just always loved art and design and cities, and in the ... , interning in China allowed me to really step back and re-evaluate what I want

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  of main campus where I spend my days. This geographic density, the ... explain, but when I’m on campus, I’m just less certain in my own sense of ... happenings in my life. It's not a bad feeling, necessarily. I hardly notice it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of ... write this.) 3.) The third is Chrome, where I'm now searching around for ... ?) 4.) The fourth is also Chrome - where I'm doing some research about my

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and ... me I’m fine with a C in their class. Back in high school, I was on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  familiar with Redux Toolkit, I can now think in the level of "do some action ... I'm working on is too large, I find that I can't get in the zone. It ... become a better programmer: I want to reach the point where I can write

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  ’s been a big year. Check it out! STARS@MIT: A Year in ReviewWhen I was ... for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... students. As a STARS Ambassador myself, I can confirm that we’ve been really

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... three schools and in fact when I originally told my guidance counselor I ... nuts, would I get in or not, if I did which would I pick, and if I didn

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  knows a Simon). But I can relate to him in the moment that he sings "We ... pick where they lived, more or less. I thought that was cool. But I didn ... ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year ... because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  variations, almost anywhere on earth. But MIT is the only place where I can ... Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  amazing in so many ways, and I’m envious of everyone that can call ATLA a childhood show. You can read how much I really like Avatar in my other blog ... I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  beads in an empty soda can. I wish I could tell you what he/she/it looked ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three ... happening in the background so I was slightly losing my mind. It was very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  this statement can be true when i rarely blog in the first place... oops ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job ... . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... of my friends died in a car accident. I remember how my class came

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  : calligraphy. I talked about this in an earlier post, where you can read me ... to forget. It feels all the more easy in places like MIT, where ... wrangle with six different tracks in Audacity to make this. But so what? I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  here. To now! In those ten seasons, the show matures, where you can see ... me. I started watching it with my high school boyfriend in junior year, where he swore it was one of his favorite shows ever and insisted I watch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022