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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  the next go-around. Here's my list (man do I love lists): I learned ... ended up sitting through classes of material I knew, or review taught in ... reconnect with my high school friends over the break, I'm realizing that (of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  had just lost a game of Pac-Man. For a fleeting second, it was all I ... up a new game. I imagined Pac-Man, endlessly swerving about his maze ... , footsteps meandering as if I had somewhere to go, but somehow never ending up

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... , and events will keep happening through the end of April. I hosted an ... that I managed to pull through, thanks to the work of Wayne Z. ’23 and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  may not have been tears in my eyes by the end :’) This past month, I ... everyone thinks their friends are amazing, but man, I have had some of the ... would highly recommend reading it! 9. How it feels to teach a class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  depicting overjoyed protagonists, plunging into watery vastness. I had high ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... semester. I had done enough coding in high school to feel comfortable ... I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... worms spilled over when I stumbled over the following twitch ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  for 3 years (almost the whole time I’ve been here). But toward the end ... the place I was supposed to be. By the end of this year, I’ll have ... I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  last almost twice as long. Despite the high hopes I had and the stars ... Remember when I said that we're human after all? That's still true. And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people ... many [annotation note="not me though, I am not sage"]sage upperclassmen ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  Type 4 thrown in as a high score, too. I think I got scored as a 2 ... high 65% Type 6 wing 3 or 4 “Robert Downey Jr. is an ENFP, so I have the same personality type as Iron Man. I'm ok with this.” Joel G. ‘18

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  -piece suits and bowler hats. “I’ll take my key, please.” “Which room ya in, lad ... . One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  of my work ended up being rote, and i could have advocated for myself ... that i really wanted to stick to. in high school, i built my ... different unconscious ways. i joined discord servers of other high schoolers

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  writing (even if I don't actually end up writing) Eat local bagels and ... It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  clothes, cooking supplies, the things I put up on my wall. I ended up using ... any more, hats that I didn’t wear, extra hangers. My goal was to only ... bags. I ended up having more stuff than I expected having, and I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  - and much, much less expensive. And as long as I shower at the Z Center ... interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  then ignore one, you've earned 1 Obama. The end! I mean, after that I ... Wait, have you heard? I mean, it's only been published all over the ... times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  your throat.  I’ve been thinking a lot about endings, recently. That ... 's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you? Charles ... Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk ... people I knew, people like me. Four more years of high school, he called it ... it, and because if I hadn't enrolled there, I wouldn't have ended up at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  mirror and hurt. Summer ended and I continued to focus on academics. The ... in a long-term committed relationship with a man, I'd... rather other ... fall, I came out to my friends from high school through the long letters

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018