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• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to ... that make the grind of MIT bearable, and make me glad to be on campus

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  weird transition out of high school, actually. In my high school, among ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... , your personal worth is determined by your workload: your lack of sleep

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  just so great. recently, I got to watch an old School of Science video ... in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... light trickle growing into a noisy downpour. i remember high school summer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  to a school full of boring normal people? 2. MIT is so incredibly ... First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... a couple days ago -- an official sign of winter's approach. i arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  longer if you want. There are dozens of schools with AFROTC (Air Force ... AFROTC at MIT or one of our detachment’s cross-town schools (Harvard, Tufts ... Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... building up of a structure. Catamorphism: the consumption of a structure ... Blasters None of this tame nonsense! Use nerf darts to skip your opponent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  , Four years of my life, when everyone at my high school literally forgot I ... , your friends, your life. You are worried because one of your high school ... spend a lot of time reading articles and opinion editorials about a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to ... harder it is to maintain healthy habits during the school year. I’ll miss

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  . During the school year, the two main commitments of the job are writing ... Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  past spring? Well, we got kicked out of school, I'm not sure how social I ... , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note="No."]Was the duration of my hiatus intentional?[/annotation] The world may never

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the top of their class during high school can slip so far into academic ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... to pursue both skating and school — all of it flashed by in an instant ... week of school. If it happened, if I still loved it, if I still had time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year, full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  along the lines of that I was a high school kid when I first heard of pix2 ... A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  of school is to "teach you material."  Tight, clustered deadlines don ... proper base of training shifts your perspective of what's possible.   ... feels that way in the middle of a hell week - what's the point of having

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  than most of us and sleep less. MIT is an engineering school, but that ... I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014