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• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  had brought me a blanket from my room and some tea for the rest of the ... for it, though I think it's a perfectly valid thing"]city kid without a ... I'm writing this blog sitting on an Amtrak train speeding from Boston

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  : what A: yeah and i stopped myself from saying that B: what A: i stopped myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... being depressed or sad just boom A: maybe there's like this switch i can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in ... one, can't wait for you to take those next steps. I, again, leave you

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  study biology for a while. Some of this stems from living in Next House. I love Next. 3E is a place where I’ve found people I adore and a close ... can’t hear very well, for some reason, and I feel like the physical

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  for the semesters to follow, I can't help but look at the path ahead as ... making a decision made me anxious. For many nights, I chose to simply go to ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  (which is about a mile across campus from where I live). So I decided to ... the documentation for that as well. Then I downloaded it, made a Twitter ... making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  navigate whether that community is the right one for you. A great line I ... frankly, graduating from college is tough! Now, I’m not saying taking a ... you can feel happy and supported, a place where there are others who

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I ... buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... . Originally I had planned to just take one class a semester for a really long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  shake your head too hard.) For the past two years that I’ve owned a DSLR ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  happen later. See your MyMIT portal for a list of locations and times for all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few of the parties around the country: one a day for the next week. (This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research ... now been put in a retirement home where it can consult a therapist twice ... 's hard to get that feeling (for me, at least) when I'm sitting behind a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift from MIT's TfA recruitment director after I made it to the final ... 've heard from a person or two that this college ain't half bad. (Am I right

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  , and it’s especially prevalent over IAP. I teach Hebrew for fun and as a ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement ... 'll happen, too! I really like being Bad Ideas chair. It can be a little

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  the same lab, working on the same project. From that, I have gained a ... can use for grad school applications. If I had put some thought into it ... . Decide on a path or prepare for all the paths. I might have been applying

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  , and… I get a break. Or I let myself take a break. A real break, for the ... policy for freshman fall, where we either pass a class or it doesn’t go on ... internship is basically 9-5, and then I have a lecture and a recitation for 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  day for a few months, and the night i got deferred, i just stopped ... a few days. the night i found out i was deferred, i wrote: Watch me ... overreacting, it was still me who wrote this, two years ago. do i not trust

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  stopped by some ice cream shop with a funny name that I can’t for the life ... from the entrance and walking by each table, pausing for a moment if it ... along with it. Was this not right for me? Should I not be here? Can the

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... me for work every morning, or even some spare change so i can look ... [annotation note="a story for another time, i promise"] who had barely even

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025