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• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  home for weeks before and never felt homesick. looking back, that was ... dinner, read occasionally and made another door sign for our room. in a way ... the first floor"]TFL[/annotation] and for a second, paused and looked

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  the right thing by sticking with physics for so long, and these days, I ... class per semester for the rest of my time at MIT and still fulfill all ... really hard and not super engaging, for me. I don't particularly love my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  Raisin Bran, read the syllabus for "Zumba" (my new PE class) and choked on ... inappropriate for me to try and put my sweatpants back on. He wrote back that he ... up on my thighs. Finally, I got over my shame, and stood up for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  ) is a four day event which is only for admitted students and their ... process for both domestic and international applicants. We do not read ... thread for this post, where hopefully Ben and/or Quinton will answer the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  MIT for giving us opportunities like FUP and all these amazing public ... extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool ... awesome activities like go to a Red Sox game and explore Boston and eat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  for a reunion - I’ll run into someone else with theirs. And even if only ... last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  spring, it will be time for me to leave MIT and venture out into the real world. So, I've begun to search for the perfect job to excite, challenge ... that I am not a match for, some which would be alright, and only one (so

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool ... excited for that! I'm filming this year (have I mentioned that?) and get to ... parts and a toolbox, but now that I've finished building my robot I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  's not just for engineers. Undergraduates in the Dept. of Urban Studies and ... freshmen get a flavor for what they might want to study next year), and we ... department and opportunities available to its students. :) Well, you may have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  public a LOT of times: for MIT Monologues, where I wrote and memorized an 8-minute monologue; for a club where I teach oral storytelling; and for 2 ... community, and reminded me to make space for connecting with my cultures more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  pore over chemistry textbooks and scientific journals for information on ... through my head abberantly, and often unnoticed. So I thank this class for ... Well...if there’s one thing you can know for sure about studying at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my ... the coolest bridge ever? I'm not Course 1 (Civil and Environmental ... 0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... letter of admission and screaming to stepping foot on campus for the first

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth ... meals on her own for herself and her two brothers. I wouldn't have ... nearly every meal; O.R.T. stood for Our Remaining Tidbits and basically

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... , sacrificing more time and happiness in exchange for hard classes and good GPAs ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  major for almost a semester, and still plan to take more physics courses ... “for sure course 18 theoretical” to “eh, maybe 8 also,” to “11?” and is ... fact, brace yourself for the changes before you step on campus, and talk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  were dedicated to my UROP, and evenings were for 18.03 and miscellaneous ... has been devoted to “psets” and “midterms” and not Silly Girl Time, but when the Bad Ideas Weekend email (and subsequent reminder email) hit my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  , make breakout rooms, and it becomes weird. As grateful as I am for the ... dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who ... "]staple[/annotation] with was a whole process in itself. Thinking about the spring and pods

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  then for the remainder of the semester, you and your team build a fully ... . Tuesdays and Thursdays, for example, I essentially only have Spanish classes ... comprehension, mixed with some movies and short films. For the first time, these

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019