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  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  like...Snoop Dogg???? Nursery rhyme??? But leaning into the song and ... -dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join ... participated that year, but Rui and I had just never signed up before. We thought

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... like a grown up?" i've thought about this question on-and-off over the ... . filling payroll forms, and talking to hr. signing ndas, calling someone my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a different room now, because my previous room was a double, and only frosh have ... plus. it's an extremely nice room and i'm very glad that i live in it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to ... personality traits they had, like taking risks, and that doesn’t mean you have ... ’re fine. Most of the time, the factors are beyond your control, and it isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  sets and early morning rowing practices. I’m excited to see my friends and my teammates who are also my friends, I’m excited for my classes, I ... a week meeting and greeting freshmen, holding REX events in B entry

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  canopy of grey and I had woken up feeling this odd sense of emptiness. I ... ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the ... parents cheered us on and wished us good luck the morning of? So much seemed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at ... , taking new classes, and handling the new responsibilities that come with ... collected data about the number of steps I’ve taken and flights of stairs I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  more generous. And knowing gives me a lifestyle to work towards, one full ... , eating out, concerts, clothes, Ubers, and really anything else. And I ... remaining and I would think, "Oh I have money left, I'm going to find

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian ... class that both fit into my schedule and piqued my interest. I enlisted ... . I ultimately settled on SCRB 192: Principles of Drug Design and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... remembered and shared stories and hugged as the lanterns drifted away. Without ... , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  and free food. It's all very exciting. Everyone is very excited! Ahhh ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met some of you, and we Bloggers also met each other--most of our interaction

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  I've been so busy.   It's 3:23 am and this is my free time ... . Haha I literally just finished and published a post a few minutes ago ... .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the ... -paced Internet #Journalism…between trying to pitch and write articles as quickly as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  , during CPW,  all the events were about "legos" and "foam swords" and other ... the few prefrosh to go to the more official and "mature" events. I was ... hectic and squeezed into four days. During orientation and rush week, I got

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  BANG!, pull the trigger all the way back and keep sight on target even ... keeping your arm steady, if you're like me and have almost no muscles above ... instructor) tells his classes that shooting is 90% mental and 10% technical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  inspired, I mean really inspired, I sit on my bed and close my eyes. I let my mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen and jot everything down. I just had one of these marathon brain

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  senior and therefore finals-free) cooked me dinner so that I could study and not stress out about, you know, feeding myself. A month ago, I got home the night before my first J-Lab oral exam and found a sweet note on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found ... , I still overuse semicolons, and I still browse Wikipedia far too often

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED and you should be too ... away at problem sets or studying. For a much better (and more musical ... stamp out this precious part of MIT culture once and for all. They sing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  After the chaos and confusion that was associated with MIT FPOPs (Freshman Preorientation Programs), orientation, and sorority recruitment, I ... a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012