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  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  . Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive ... to him for a few moments, then he went and sat down. Two hours later I ... is Theron Martin, who was suspended for cheating. I can succeed. I will

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... for some reason is still reading this -- I would love to hear from you ... got this email from AW: I saw your blog post: "Denied by MIT, Now a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  . Caroline, name everything you're a part of. Or I can do it for you, cause it ... that, at the end of a shitty day or test, I can always just see one of ... . For about a couple of weeks I was sure I was a 2A-product design major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  -minute bus ride from my apartment, where I work on developing a novel medical ... EPIC, but was also a sweet finish to a hectic junior year where I took ... MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  for contraceptives, then oh boy do I have a rundown for you. The types ... basic tuition, you can get a lot of services for free at Medical. You can ... % effective!): A PSA to all MIT students with uteruses: YOU CAN GET AN IUD FOR

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  where you can swap the two roots, which is a very simple symmetry. For ... As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... being a poli-sci major, but if I chose wrong I can just get a masters ... into a very capitalist mindset for like 3 hours, and then I remembered I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time sleeping." But then I had to be like "nah, I'm going to take a class that meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  hear it all the time from MIT alumni (I work as a techcaller yipee ... . I became a Campus Ambassador for Monster Energy! I came out as trans ... happy with that growth and where it is heading.  I am growing into a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  posting this blog [and being home for a week for Christmas], I listened to ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-9E4AYRGg Where to go from here ... year some life I've engineered to the good for all my peers. Did you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  other. It's a unique program where I could pursue sociological questions ... a thesis for my program, and the profs - from day 1 - tend to scare ... technology development. It turned out to be a job description for what I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed ... ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber ... from august 2018, i can’t help but cringe at the unnecessarily harsh ways

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  anything lined up. I cursed myself for wandering through Career Fair with a ... summer. I even stuck a note on the door for myself and my roommate (who ... Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  commitment than it used to. I gained a higher tolerance for low effort, and I ... have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing ... , running a quick setup test for a UROP, filling out a when-to-meet, things

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  from my laptop. Looking up, I saw that Fatema had replied with a link to ... Maria,” I messaged her, “you know how with ultra hand you can…” A few ... make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  coat goggles gloves, Can I see myself do this for the rest of my life ... call, why do I do this I have to workout, for the team, for me Hang clean, squat repeat Practice, wow I can’t do anything well today? Am I getting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  the end of the day. I don't know how one can can feel so long when a ... . Coexisting with the sage, rosemary and mint I bought for a dollar a plant, and ... . For now, however, I have 14 meals/week in the dining hall, where the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  they negotiated a cab for me while I (the foreigner, a tempting target on ... quite easy at times… Back to Yunnan for Puzhehei (普者黑), where I ... I was given funding for my airfare and tuition--if you ask, you can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  beliefs. For now, for the coming summer, I have a few small things I want ... sake of physical fitness, but for the sake of proving to myself I can do ... —every post is titled with a lyric from a song I've heard, which I find

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  've reached a point where sometimes things are just so fucked up I can't help ... people, as a result. I remember one day after lab, where were all cleaning ... will come a time where I won't be there to say something. This happens

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020