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  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet ... keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the juiciest, most delicious chicken and quinoa. This blog will focus on the ... many other appliances save for the few plates, utensils, and other

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... and lobster tail (it doesn't have [annotation note="if you want this, go to Alive and Kicking Lobsters in West Cambridge"]actual lobster

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  album, but you just alternate between playing "Lover" and "The Archer" over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of ... mind of the speaker and the listener, and miscommunication arises when

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and ... one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to ... quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a ... was tested, scrutinized, and pushed to its limits and after many stressful nights and over 1,700 miles on the Oregon trail, the finish line was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  I have simultaneously done nothing and everything this IAP. After an exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include: that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  April, and we just finished [redacted] and [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... prepositions), and mixed with a few people that are really really good at doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips over and you get showered with psets and tests and remember why you were there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  'd also suggested that we start early, but I had tests on Monday and Wednesday that I'd had to tool for, and I had already spent nearly four hours ... optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  and give some more information so that when 2021 rolls around we can look back and be like "ohhh wowww you did so much" or like "ohhh god cami ... gym four times a week I started going to the gym when I came to MIT and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a sample tile that my sister and I have since rediscovered. I've also ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  , or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and ... graduate. And I HATE it. Why? Because I have NO CLUE what I'm going to do ... against textbooks about thermodynamics and control systems, and I don't even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... deciding what activities to drop and which ones to keep. I ended up making

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in return. i see someone stressed, upset, and feel the urge to comfort them. “are you doing ok?” “yeah” and they are clearly not ok. i don’t want to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  mind was again. It's happened again. And so I set my phone to the side and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24 ... accumulated into internal goosebumps. And when that wasn't enough, eventually

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into ... MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and ... student center, the free event supplies all the materials and machinery that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  DOUGH: clean your counter and wash your dishes wash your hands ... (more fun with music and friends) keeping adding water and kneading until all the flour is incorporated and the dough is smooth and elastic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016