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• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... class.  I started a new novel. For the last month or so of term, I’d go ... learned a lot from the Latinx history class. In hindsight, however, I wish I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a ... some basic Python fundamentals from a summer camp I did a while back ... dependency on cars for getting around. Now that I’m in a city that’s as

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  it for yourselves in the next six months. I can hardly wait. The ... have happened once during a particularly boring dream, but I can ... phone gets a signal. (T-Mobile users, I'm writing this for you.) There

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I ... tedious. I realize that I now have a record from my early years in career ... than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  visit a few more out-of-state schools—I’m from Maryland, and didn’t want ... with us put us up for a few days, so I headed back to campus about a year ... freshman advisor a year later, after I was admitted. Now for a reality check

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  during college i developed a method for watching shows very efficiently ... . sometimes i’ll write blog posts where i have a few key points i want to ... reason so linearly. i’m reminded of the moment from siddhartha where the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ’t looking? For a blissful moment, I breathed in peace. Then I reached my ... “cockroach” would not improve my torment. I looked around the stall for a ... thought I’d say those words. Where was the cockroach from? My boot. THE

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  —is a heavy feeling.  as much as i wish for the goodbye to be prolonged ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference, you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the ... Pearce, a chemical-engineering major from Chicago: "It's marketed as--I don

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  challenge and how they can register their schools for the exam. I ... teacher can download together with an answer sheet for a classroom ... Rob earlier this summer, and learned more from Kim when I saw him at IOI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , I would trudge back to campus afterwards for a night exam or office hours or a checkoff for 6.0001 or 6.009 or 6.004. I was hungry and desperate and cranky and I hated waiting ninety minutes for a checkoff, but

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  service where you can check out bikes for a set period of time. there are ... time in over a year where I've been able to make eye contact with a ... housing. I realized as I continued to run that for every room with a light

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  . Awkward situations in "Shopgirl" arise from Jeremy begging for a goodnight ... Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. I expected a lot from the movie ... stalking. They meet for dinner, where conversation is forced and trite, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only ... (I was in a single, which actually really sucked for Orientation), so ... " "I didn't pay for it, it's not my explosion." (Yeah, I don't know where

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... .  What changed? Me. I changed. Who was once a headstrong, ready

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  I carried home a table and ladder from over a mile away. That was a ... missing little things -- I can’t borrow pens from the person next to me ... road. Isn’t it spectacular that I can run past the Charles, where, unlike

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  Manifest Destiny for my blog.) Anyway, the fact that I've used a legless ... ahead like infinite corridors. A year ago: I tried/ditched required ... and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  sandwiches! And Oh, and when I had to go home for a weekend I walked from MIT ... like these, where we saw petroglyphs! If I find a pic I'll put it up ... Death Valley and Southern California for eight days for CREDIT, took a

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... at night, I pause to take a deep breath and look at Boston from across

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  " section of my entry, I can see media uploads here in Wordpress from Chris Su ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of ... transformative. I took a lot away from my first layoff. It was at a job that I saw

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025