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• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  where they can do productive work in the span of only a few weeks or ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  in and walk up to them and say, “Hey, can I talk to you about this book ... peaking and plans were forming. Book Launch In 2012, I started working on ... written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  , because in all honesty, who cares? The answer is no one. [annotation note="I ... note="there is also an area where your goal is to listen and see what can ... A while back I gave a presentation at MIT called Three Epiphanies and

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  neither performing. In how many ways can the trio be chosen? I know, I ... In numerical order, this term, I am taking: 4.614; 7.012; 14.02; 14.30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours ... 's where you come in. The contenders: LOST I've been an addict for ... episode. I finally got sucked in this year - it's really good.  

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  , Electrical, and Aerodynamics/Composites. I’m in the latter of these, where I ... that you can’t see I clearly messed up. But in the end, I got a decent ... A quick note before I start: VOTE (if you can)! Find your polling

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... on H-Mart and walk three miles to Chinatown, where I do find bamboo leaves…and pork belly, in massive quantities. I ask the nice man at the

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

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  classes is particularly blurred in the math department, where you often don ... can hang with the problem sets, you're alright. I feel 12% better about ... general and MIT life in general a bit later this long, wonderful weekend. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  need to decide which classes to take and where that will lead me. That in ... investment. Better yet I had to make my decision in a week. Everyone deals ... internship, I even used a decision matrix in which you rate criteria and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... nearly six months in a household I had long since outgrown. The next few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... like writing about them. I'll be back at school soon, where I'll actually have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  ideas, and I've got a research project in the pipeline where I'm trying to ... economist I could be. But then why, in this world where I choose to value day ... where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the ... take the midterm today in two hours and 19 minutes, as of the moment I’m writing this of course. But I can’t find the motivation to study. The

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  (i.e., in class while my teachers were talking...) I started reading less around the time I started high school, when paying attention in ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  "Where are you from?" written on it in pretty lettering. I don't hold any ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... there's flames in the background! For no reason! Prompt: "Where are you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... is "I make friends with the people in APO, the Assassins' Guild, the UA ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  ;QuestBridge" on the cover sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my ... in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... unofficial score report faxed or mailed in the meantime. You can mail it to MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  your body is in, and I can’t really explain them other than legs are in ... because I practiced it quite a bit, including randomly in the hallway where ... , though, so you can tell I made it out of all those ordeals alive. In

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up ... . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an ... 've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job ... through while growing up and also because i’m worry-prone in general, so

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023