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• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  pursue paths where my best qualities don’t get a chance to shine. I can ... lean into the activities where I can naturally succeed. Cross-posted on ... someone. I can go to lectures and do my homework and pass my classes, but at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... truth in the matter was that I didn't really hate compsci, I just found it ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  -coded chunks than i can name, i feel as if i’ve gained very little. the ... Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... one major, so i should choose whichever path i’m more interested in. 2

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been ... infrastructure, because I can’t imagine biking everywhere in Boston or Tucson ... subway long-term, as I’ve never lived in a city where subways are the main

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  realization recently that I think I'm boring. I'm not entirely sure where I sit ... can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... , that I'm just told these things and they echo back in my thoughts as an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I ... rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are ... shouldn’t I talk really loudly in the deep lounge at 2am” and “why shouldn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  't have any pictures of the game "in action," but what can I say? I was too ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  like basically ending and I can just become *one with the nature* here in ... FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  less than glorious. It can be summed up well in one picture yea ... entrants: I was, at times, in the chat group with Omar (in the picture of ... here are some pictures/videos I have to add (in roughly chronological

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  will help the company after I leave in August because they can easily ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... athletics, gym classes, and other non-academic activities. I was reading in ... . 4. Size. I grew up in a town of about 2,000 people and the idea of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical ... ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... , and the fraternity I was living in over the summer had free cereal 24

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  ! On more than one occasion, I was the only person in the theatre during ... ." ArtBeat can feel slightly awkward for a poor college student, and I have ... Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  school (the one I included in my MIT blogger application). The station ... have a blog where you can write about whatever you want?” (TNC himself is famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  of other spots). 2. On the section where you list AP courses, can I ... can come up with by the time of the next Omnibus, which I hope to do in about two weeks. zlatana wrote, "where can i find the answers of some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  where there was nothing more I wanted to do but be horizontal, alone, and ... 'm very grateful that this is the stress that I have in my life, as opposed ... thoughts can and will, of course, happen before and after junior year, but I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  no other. In high school I became interested instead in poetry; not ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... way. In particular, I found myself wanting to say big things

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  room: Hello, Charles River and New House :) I'm living in Mac ... campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011