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• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  in September and resume my life as an MIT student. Until then, I can ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can ... never made any real friends in mit A: oh B: i mean, do you feel like you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target ... ! This really meant a lot to me, and I can’t wait to spend the next year on ... miles at least once every day for four weeks. I started to feel pain in my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... :00 in the morning I was absolutely exhausted. We're talking tired. It was

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  . When I think back to my years in Ann Arbor, I can't help but think of ... real homecomings for me. In the few moments that I wasn't working, I was ... delicious as I remembered. In fact, I'm salivating just thinking about them

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New ... was leaving. I'm in love with Oregon, and I'm obsessed with my family ... in the White Mountains. Supposedly, I'd signed up because I love hiking

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment ... II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... Pauli myself. But I'm not in charge of that. I'm in charge of feeding 20 ... work. 3 days going, i've gotten back my standing backhandspring and can

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... in the summer. baker isn’t east campus, but it’s more than i feel like ... frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... late, I’ve been asking Dylan R. ‘24 to put me in “email purgatory” — where I’m stuck in my current location and Dylan stares at me menacingly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I find my weekly/fortnightly blogs slowly phasing themselves out. As such I ... artist Nina Yuen. I can't put my finger on what it is about the videos but

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  formulaic.” I’m not sure if the quote that ended up in the article quite ... other domain. You can have terrible taste in music but good taste in ... "] something doesn’t seem right…[/caption] Anyway, I don’t doubt that, in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i ... multipliers in the same breath, where i get read and write (at various levels of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a ... somewhere better than our public school in Portland, Oregon. (I cast my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... college in less than four years—ask me why I’ve been around MIT for so long ... , and I love being in this inspiring, intellectual environment. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most ... classes I'm interested in, rather than just trying to fulfill random ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  later and later. I wake up just in time to catch breakfast, which closes ... minutes, 29 seconds Sometimes, I know that I can make it if only I walk fast ... through denial, bargaining, anger, and depression until I have accepted in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024