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  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I ... have obnoxiously oversized appendages, and it would leave a greasy trail ... to   do this, and it comes with unique growing pains. I think that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first ... -consecutive hours, 86 measures, five parts, thirty sheets of staff paper, and six ... hours scripting and rehearsing a dry run presentation for 6.UAT (i

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  vegetative state as I fantasize about the geese in Central Park and the cr ... and breaking like bones on the trash-encrusted sidewalk. Jess Lin and I ... 've bought cursory custard buns and huddled in a cafeteria-style bakery under a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  blah blah"]big ol' biotech company,[/annotation] and I've somewhat adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... and shapeable. Fence cannot stop her; Fence can only extrude her. My Cat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  mentorship   2. choosing i was very lucky and had offers from D, A, and ... in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and ... . options at the end of my job search i had offers from the following three

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster coffee shop, sipping an Earl Grey/white chocolate infusion and putting the finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  rink, a track, and a basketball court; over 4000 students attend. It's preceded and followed by a lot of info-sessions, panels, networking events, and anxiety. Last year, I went to the career fair with the primary

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... one-folder-for-all-my-classes routine and horrible inbox in high school

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by ... going to countless recruitment events and throwing my hat into a whole slew of different things, and I thought I'd document all my successes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  boredom and morbid curiosity, I downloaded and read through a 400 page radio manual. I took the test, got my license, and joined a local [annotation ... met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  little bit of what Boston has to offer and how you can fit that bit of ... classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a ... bought lunch at Stata, handed over my ID and was alarmed to see that little "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might have little control over how things turn out. It's rough. More and more towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... ’t find the time. I’ve been working on a new project, and I’m writing a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible people on here. I've befriended seven incredibly talented and intelligent individuals, each set with their own unique interests, passions, and strengths

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad school. All my classes are remote, and I don’t have campus access, so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  to read, draw, write, cook/bake, listen to new music, and journal to be ... feel occupied enough to avoid the quarantine tedium. and it feels very high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find ... with tough academic classes, sports, extracurricular activities, and ... the couch and watch Gossip Girl, Degreassi, and OchoCinco: The Ultimate

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... and because I had a lot on my plate. dropping a class definitely helped

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  a source of academic knowledge that might help me with my courses and ... “regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in film ... . The objective is that you start from one article, and you have to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021