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• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  ; Another thing I loved was the richness of the wood: everything in the Gamble ... ="47053" /]   Lastly, I really loved the shapes of things in the Gamble House ... course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  details of my life. I'll tell you things I want you to know in my blog, but ... use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... ! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at ... going, I can't possibly be the only one...

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  are so many people I want to keep in touch with, and I know I can see ... here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  entirely in the right frame of mind, if the phone rang and I was more than an ... on (one of the other volunteers christened me Reggie). I can imagine ... 're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in ... DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  in LA and got back just the day before the first day of classes. I ... cause decision fatigue? I can imagine this is the case for lots of people ... On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today ... 't know the answer, but perhaps I can persuade Ben to answer it in the ... applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ’m 6’ 4”. I can touch the bottom of every pool I get into. I haven’t been ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the ... test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... were definitely my stronger subjects in high school, and so I figured I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  example, in the context of blogging, I can write my blog posts on Notion ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban ... assignments, you can filter and sort the table and view it in multiple of ways

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the ... beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  . But hey, don't get me wrong - you can do a lot of other things in the ... ; Yep, no need to do anything serious. I did a bunch of these things in ... early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  explain, but when I’m on campus, I’m just less certain in my own sense of ... problem that fits into big, general themes I’m in the middle of exploring ... can’t fully process the extent of how I am changing. When I’m on campus

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... could’ve had to gain experience in programming. It's a pain, but I can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would ... reading if you will. Remember Tim's promise. Best of luck in the weeks ... you'll get over it but you feel like you never will.[1] So if I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  focus on the good parts, because there are lots of those too. I can tell ... school where I can do so while majoring in something completely different ... : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  'd want something more than the above.) I'm blogging because in a true show of academic superskillz, I completed two full problem sets last night. Yes, you read that correctly. I did two whole psets in just under five

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let ... and sense of community i've received in all aspects makes me weepy ... change in so many ways in the past few years. i'm the last member of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025