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  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who wished to somehow alleviate my IHTFP feelings (then negative) but couldn ... trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  needed to refer to notes. Together, we would diagnose what's going on. I ... It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember ... 's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy my other classes (I’ve been known to offer to take on other

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Station Esplanade, caught the end of the Packers-Seahawks game, and went to ... which I was ready to house some food and watch the Patriots game, which ... Every year our office travels all over the country to speak to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  . Also good is 99 Ways to Tell a Story. Some of us were travelling together ... literature, on the need to lose. Quick context: MTG is a card game, mana screws ... to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  -land without anything to tether me down to things that actually exist. So to hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old everyday physical objects, starting with "How To Make (almost) Anything" (aka

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  Bristol Although I was data-less, I luckily had the foresight to download ... knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... phases: Flying from Boston to London Taking the train from London to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on ... This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my ... into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  event, they pulled together to bake a lovely little apple pie; it was an ... bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  Applying to things doesn't end after you come to MIT, and waiting doesn't either. Right now, you might be waiting to find out if you got ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  , "why not?" A fellow Nextie and I take an Uber to the venue together, and ... end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... L. '22 and Derek Y. '22 to join and we head up towards a ramen place

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  lived over on the Boston side had to hike over the Harvard Bridge to this ... likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new. Intently following the instruction manual together, like building IKEA

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  ) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named ... 10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to ... Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  opening-round game at Giants Stadium (I think) to cheer for the Azzurri ... , but couldn't stand the intensity of the game so I went out to run ... Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006