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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  any of the despartments?" So UROPs are pretty cool, or so I'm told ... space as grad students. The thing is, UROPs can be anything, really. I ... , and I hope it treated everyone well! A couple of entries ago I told you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I ... , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... that's okay, because I'm (aren't we all?) in this process of finding the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  , where i know if i put in enough hours, i can do it. if i ask the right ... your class, of course your advisor wants you to graduate. i'm in an ... these things, nor can i participate in them. it's always been easier not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  interested in, you can find a lot of people doing things around it. For me ... little pockets of the MIT landscape. And I stayed in some, and realized ... . But in doing so, I was losing out on a lot of depth. This semester I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least not for at least another week. I want to talk to you, especially since ... -7) and math (18) and minoring in writing (21W). This fall I will be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  Poetry and Advanced Toy Design. I got a B- in my HASS class, Forms of ... ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew impatient and consumed the rest of the lollipop in two swift chomps. Freedom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved ... want to spend a lot of time on the boards and the blogs, but a guy can

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  downs: I can think of semester after semester where I have struggled ... , and they did a good job, and I knew in my heart of hearts that I had ... fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just ... skills. BUT - I'm NOT in charge of the mail. Our processing ... sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I ... completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was ... little '12 after my Facebook status because I'd been, in truth, intimidated

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  crucial to our nation's defense rejuvenated my enthusiasm in ROTC and I can ... Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent ... comprised of C-130s. Thirteen other cadets on the visit and I were split up

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of ... build a treehouse.” Or, in normal-person-speak: hey, I kind of like this ... because I function in a perpetual state of procrastination. “But Natanya

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  .006. Classes Where I Need To Choose 2 of These and 2 of These Only or Maybe I Can ... interest in CS really was found in the design aspects of it i.e. front end ... get in so my chances of this one are also very low. I just thought this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... about. Then, it can potentially veer away from the idea of fit and tilt in ... beyond in order to qualify for most schools. I’ll give you that. The

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I ... be offering their lessons. I actually became intrigued in ballroom

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  career advice I've collected in my work notebook--a lot of it is less ... where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because ... I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... … since I was a freshman in high school.” I’m a classic case of falling down ... enviably shiny. It was one of the few ways in which I felt like I was able to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  , contiguous chunk of free time in my schedule, then I try to avoid these kinds ... the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025