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  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  plan on taking Analog Electronics Lab, Solid State Devices, and C and ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  harbor, it's super pretty to walk around and also is home to the Institute ... are thinking critically about the state of public health and healthcare ... year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my ... independence, bringing me closer to both myself and my parents. I was recently

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  it pulled an all-nighter the night before, and considers 7 hours peachy keen and 6 hours adequate, but as soon as term's done and I leave town, it considers itself deprived on less than 8.5 hours per night, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other ... a couple of good friends from high school -- Ethan, Harsheta, and Xerxes. We chatted and caught up, telling each other about our shenanigans

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  easily to me and though friends offer to help me, I can't help but feel ... 's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  , and Prof. Arthur Bahr generously offered to read it with me. After I ... take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having ... down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  15 +/-2, I would have given you a solid 9.5 and then offered to adjust ... , an Ethiopian feast, vegan carrot cake, and the coolest farm ... dinner for 30, 105 miles of running, and a lot of Barack Obama have

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  several physical and non-physical aspects of the Institute. We were ... Institute units and satisified 4 GIR requirements. Spring semester is on ... Nine days ago, I was at the Boston Logan Airport, and it felt strange

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  will watch and offer video responses to the highest-rated videos. The website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  about applying to our institution, we give your counselors and teachers ... fun and exciting event where all admitted students who come to campus ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  colleges and universities, the high-priced independent counselors, the test ... of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that ... at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  understand what it means to be alive and human at this Institute, would require ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... classes, enjoying my time in them, so on and so forth. It seemed, however

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... -efficient chemical engineering machine capable of diluting solutions and running ... new work arises, and you're actually learning something in the process

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for ... enormously rewarding. After we all gather around the table, Marilee offers ... down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  first 21w.755 (reading and writing short stories) lecture last semester ... the relationship between masters and slaves; someone else said it was about the id, ego, and superego; another person said it modeled election

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022