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  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  school in a city that has so many other colleges and universities is ... spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and ... , so the atmosphere was calm and lax. We talked, watched some Sherlock

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the letters into roots and x-fixes"]ad and visum[/annotation](from videre, "to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and ... our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the ... year (IT'S MY SENIOR YEAR) and I realize that I still don't have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to use college as an opportunity to expand my horizons and meet other kinds ... Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  , escaped from some universe, a piece of a jigsaw puzzle I’m privy to. And the ... And psych! Happy April Fool’s Day! I didn’t celebrate it in ... -attack-worthy lies over the next couple of days. And this blogpost is all about the art

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  ] Today’s Opportunities? I skimmed through it and what caught my eye was ... like a 360 camera and have a hands-on experience in a tumultuous, virtual ... with high hopes, and spammed a friend telling them about the class too

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wanted to put myself out there and meet as many people and expose myself to ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  ? Yeah, they would probably be worried about my mental state, and scramble ... from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  , and i felt awful. my throat was sore, i simultaneously felt hot and cold, and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... pass and started rifling through my emails. i thought, should i go to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  black people are the majority, and coming to the States where I am part of ... breath and force myself back to my zen state, and I think these situations ... conversation they would nod their heads (side to side, not up and down) and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly certain that someone has already given a more insightful and better written ... Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  , and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look ... school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them about their personal experiences. When I entered high school and became

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  stated “I’m just better than her.”  I felt a soft burning in my nose and ... have been reading chess books since grade school and have numerous ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... , sophomores, and freshmen will be invited back to campus. This might not happen

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  your Google Calendar, sucking away sleep, lectures, and other assignments ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... drive up to a cabinet while navigating around obstacles and choose a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and ... had no idea about until last week. I picked up my cheese and pastry

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  and surroundings, which have - surprise! - real, non-university people ... than the research I do. Other than protecting travellers and preserving ... . Culture and some other French radio stations that are fun to listen to on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , such as GIRs (General Institute Requirements) and REST ... conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... the blogs. Note that the answers reflect my personal experiences, and do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  family. Every year, my mom and dad would invite all the Chinese faculty and graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  state than before.  I got to her room just as she started vomiting, and I ... and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014