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• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a senior, the last day of classes for my undergraduate career. So, after my very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  me enjoy speeding down a ramp on a rolling chair, let me lie down on ... taking initiative to act on things that aren't quite problems yet. I confused taking initiative for being alone. You have to act on your problems

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... science programs were not as strong (please note that I am not commenting on ... shiny on my LinkedIn as McKinsey or Google or Jane Street would, and they

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... audience, and so on. i have a bad habit where i tend to assume at first that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  It's my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements ... classes I want to be on my transcript when I apply to college. Even if it ... dropping a single one. 1) and 4) I just really want on my transcript when I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  doing some things. I'm taking a class on prosody, which can be transcribed ... refer to as Poor People Money (PPM), to spend on groceries at locations ... room on the verge of passing out, I feel sort of free. Maybe one day in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  took several hours but went fine. on christmas i went to eat dimsum with ... to moving on. it's the feeling i have with sipb when i'm trying to find frosh who'll take lead on hydrant. or when, for puzzle club, i'm letting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for ... ’re worried about missing out on better options that may not even exist) last ... regardless of what direction they settled on one related idea i often think

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be ... friendships to thrive on mutual compassion, trust, honesty; my best friend from high school has never hesitated to call me out on my bullshit, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... Elementary discrete mathematics for science and engineering, with a focus on ... productive in OHs for some reason. 18.06 - Linear Algebra Basic subject on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i ... -to-three-person conversations and tend to zone out in significantly larger groups. but on the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of ... everywhere and lashing out to try and blame it all on something, anything — but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  actually come up with the most accurate answer on the spot. there’s probably ... on twitter because they tweeted saying they were looking to meet 100 ... generally of an abstract nature, and you can get pretty far on math just by

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ... wrong   1:53 pm:  I find a friendly local math major on my floor ... second friendly local math major on our floor to check out my math  he

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere ... those snow boots and sport your MIT pride with TECHNOLOGY spelled out on ... nerd side while playing your favorite song than to headbang with this on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  hollowed with knives?” - Kahlil Gibran. On Sorrow and Joy. I loved that chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... now, but time moved on and muscle memory just carried me along the way

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  passed on anymore. it makes me think about how fragile oral history is ... really liked construction when i was a prefrosh, and now i'm on the other ... slay the spire on the highest difficulty level, ascension 20, on three

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

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  myself at programming memes on codehub. My room is dimly lit with my ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... on my bs and set the bar high for what I should aspire to be- the ones

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  lately, often bordering on nightmares. i'd wake up and i'd feel tense ... pattern. for the past five nights i have constantly felt on the verge of ... in the evening, and it'd just come upon me, like hands pressing down on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020