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• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... , that I'm just told these things and they echo back in my thoughts as an ... obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  maximize my time. I can’t just lie in bed and scroll through social media for ... heart soaring. I’ve suddenly found myself busier than ever. In the past ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its warmth. "I finished the GIRS, am in a super romantic relationship with ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... with my usual black North Face. (No, I do not usually go out in public

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  will help the company after I leave in August because they can easily ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite ... .T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... AM-11AM shift) can attest to: 8 AM - I open desk. 8:30 AM - No one ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... that I don't have to think about in the circuits that I design. 6

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  I would, but perhaps the same life lesson can hit you in waves, each ... kind of control, I began walking in earnest, sometimes seven or ten miles ... ’t exist. By the time I was moving in my friends for the fall semester, the

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Know that I'm with you The only way that I can be Until you're in my ... fulfilled in life, because I know there's very little he can do now. I wonder ... his time in the Navy because, well, that's all I can do. But, God, what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes earn a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in Charm. When I ... mentioned by expatmom in the comments) After checking out the Fair, I headed ... , of course, they were experts in probability and statistics (I'm sure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... I still retain something from my contest math days and can totally do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in middle school, and every year in elementary school. You'd think I'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  " anymore? In an effort to figure that out I wanted to have a conversation ... 's talk about stuff so I can blog it." And, that's what this is. Ameer and I talking about stuff. --- Ameer: Yerrrrrr Kellen: Ok, so in this new

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... time in Maine (when I can’t easily classify things as “good” or “bad”, I

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can't quite describe. i feel like i've been in LA forever, but i also feel like ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking ... things down when i've had enough. this tuesday, every person in my house ... like this, so i'm glad i can be more present now i have more time — i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  paper I read in 14.11: Experimental Economics reports that too many choices can be demotivating. (You may have seen this research quoted in the ... ? What do people think about this Nike+iPod Sport Kit? Vote in the comments

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  were definitely my stronger subjects in high school, and so I figured I ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took ... in mechanical engineering -- actually I got two degrees. I had so much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006