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• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  and 8. 8. Spend a Lot of Money Retail therapy can never hurt your ... any size and price can be a nice reminder of prioritizing yourself, and ... can never preemptively treat yourself, or the academic lords will smite

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , then I can’t go to event A tomorrow, which will prevent me from doing ... generates ALL possible stories - but it can’t. Because the world is so vast

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... ago so that undergrads like me can use these tools for this exact ... light interact with a chemical, which can tell you things like which atoms

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  can be a little scary. I think it’s especially hard at MIT because it ... . Something I wish someone would have told me from the start is: you can’t even ... the South. On campus you can find me creating stuff in one of MIT’s many

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second ... professor. But in reality, each step can be incredibly, and somewhat ... time. But I look back on my time here, and I can't help but feel like it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep ... training session each week. During open hours, MIT community members can come

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  thus any adjectives may be attached to it. It can be apocalyptic. It can be dazzling. It can be destructive, or it can be beautiful. This ... has not demanded anything from us, we can imagine it to be anything we

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... of loneliness can be cured.” when i first listened to this episode ... loneliness is and how hard community-building is and how transformative it can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  the seasons-- that I'm okay with. I can anticipate it. But sometimes, a change is so quick you can't even process what's happening. Flashback to ... used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing ... doing some things. I'm taking a class on prosody, which can be transcribed

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  , where i know if i put in enough hours, i can do it. if i ask the right people for help, i can do it. it's not like homework where people actively ... like punching air. i can punch harder, but i'll only get tired faster

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... overhyped, but I also think this industry is very promising and can eliminate ... reminded me again that working a full-time job can make the days seem like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and ... code next week for a different project called TRANSFORM so that it can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here ... : calligraphy. I talked about this in an earlier post, where you can read me ... important, because that's one way you can get better at doing something. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... to tell myself that there’s not much I can do about the past, and that there’s not much I can do now besides put myself back together. I’m trying

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  interesting to see how programs can be optimized to save time and memory. Program Security: There was some emphasis on how we can ensure data is protected, and how we can choose to safeguard variables and methods from

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup ... . "If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... can't believe how assertive I was, how eager I was to experience new ... other MIT students on the street, so if I really squint, I can feel like a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  upcoming semester. I can't imagine my first week, month, or year at MIT being ... community and want to help make your transition as positive as it can possibly ... growth to navigate and survive. Two years later, I can see the importance

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  islands located off the harbor. You can kayak between them, as students in ... since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access them through other means. That's right—until October 12th, you can take

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020