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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of ... our dorms and watched my roommate smash random electronics on the ... seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants ... electricity and the job can be better accomplished by hand washing ... cu. Ft.), I hope and pray that somehow, perhaps for Christmas, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And ... material I learned (and still love) from the UROP I did the summer after my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am I doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  Some days are wonderful. Others are tough. And then... there are ... task harder, interaction tougher, and footstep heavier. The day feels oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  side, and a certain Institute of Technology it houses, reflects the voice ... brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They ... favorite side of the house. Well, there’s only two to choose from, and the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  , but you can easily deduce longitude, latitude, and altitude from the ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  )engineering, and being an upperclassman at this good old institute. ... implementation to consider, not to mention all the ethics, advocacy, and ... Tech for the past two years and know that he is not only an enthusiastic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... Institute of Technology......) But one of the largest challenges, at least for me, has been finding the time to try and pset all that needs to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , I looked into my internal state, and I found...calm. My troubles hadn ... while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self-reflection at all this summer. Usually, when things go wrong—and things have been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  first president born in the United States and the only president to speak ... Protobowl, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and playing Sporcle quizzes. I have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store"]eduroam[/annotation] is giving me one bar. It actually loads search results and sends email

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  take a gap year, how the first week went, and what my plans are for the next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  runs the university laptop loaner program, and asked if I could get a ... , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit ... pointed out my items and asked if I could have my seat back, and he

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  short story for 21w.755, reading and writing short stories, entirely ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence level. my secret writing tip is to just write enough bullet points and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  men’s basketball game. Harvard is an NCAA Division I program and we are ... than any other DIII university. We call ourselves the Engineers. Our ... students should be more focused on activities like winning Nobel prizes and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  'm taking Advanced Essay Workshop with him, and I've never cared about a class ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going ... and lay in the grass between the chapel and the student center and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  and attending entirely different high schools and universities, with ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... their gate got moved? It was pretty dramatic; employees and passengers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  Happy Holidays everyone! I can't believe another semester's done and ... "upperclassman" and developing a programmed rhythm for handling a semester, all the ... to just LET. LOOSE. and jump on everything not class related. I'm not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... ++, Arduino electronics & programming, and survey design + human

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  find myself and some degree of serenity. As much as I'm jealous of the ... [annotation note="blogger crossover!!"]Kano[/annotation] and another of my ... old, and about coming home. I flew back from Europe on February 3rd

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023