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  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  wake up at like 8 or 9 every day regardless of when my classes are. Stop ... and listen to music at the same time. I'm really envious of the people ... low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... ) today and saw three of my favorite people at MIT, all of whom I met ... what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  slow exercise at the center of the floor"]adagio.[/annotation] We also ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... sense of deja vu. I had done this before. I had searched a name like this

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  have decided that taking five classes at MIT on top of a UROP and ... spend time with friends. 2. I'm continuing my UROP at the MIT Education ... Education Arcade. I just found that I really liked the environment of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was ... eat at any of Harrisburg's otherwise fine pizza establishments anymore ... of the day had come half an hour earlier at Broad Street Market, when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their lives, even if they live an ocean away. I call my mother at least once a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at ... in your head). I forgot to do this at first out of excitement, but was ... (samples at the market, grabbing a couple grapes out of the bag on the train

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of ... small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  haven’t. However, at the time, my part 2 of my MIT application was ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea ... everything that I do, much of which I could almost only do at MIT. A little ... Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  that they can give me whatever questions remain at the end of class - I ... 't shout out, and aren't disrespectful of each other or me. They laugh at my ... . At the end of class, I collect the notecards; they say things like "you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  discovers that he has multiple forms of cancer and at best one month to live ... had been tossing around the idea of hating superman for a few days at ... other superhero just by looking at them. I thought he was stupid.  During

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  Germany that has a full deli/bakery section at the front. the number of days ... students can take part in a variety of opportunities or take a much ... time, in which MIT students are sent to dozens of countries around the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty-year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take ... .002), and Fundamentals of Programming 6.101(6.009) at the same time on top of ... the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... eighteen-year-old mind didn’t realize that this application was the first of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021