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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  when it can do good. I'm also not implying "high-achieving good ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  job site in Needham, where I catch one of three trains between the hours ... accompanying sights beckon my eyes to rest. Each day that I work in Cambridge ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  long (5 hr) incubation, so I can mix the DNA in with the cells, then go ... 's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  both undergrad and grad like 4.440. I learn Rhinoscript so I can code ... this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... ; let me give some more legitimate examples: i played piano briefly in ... i could sit in front of the piano, know where all the keys were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  this in city squares too. I love it, but it can drive the locals nuts: in ... humanities classes MIT requires. In this case Asia really means China, and I ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  SolidWorks file looked like As you can see, I added some footsteps to ... of the final run of the paper weight so you can see the lathe in action ... " in diameter (TINY!). I popped the part into the vice, set my zero at

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  to. I hope that this becomes a living document that people can add to ... in their dorm rooms. I have a vinyl cutter in my GRA apartment—I think ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  it's IAP! I don't have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could ... dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite ... 't like very much, so I dropped it in the second week and didn't even log a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  to change the world in the same breath. I’ve never met anyone who ... the years, I’ve learned an invaluable lesson: While you can’ ... believe that your dream can become a reality. I don’t know what Zahir

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the ... you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  be an EMT. If it gets overwhelming, I can give up helping others ... the future! And you can do so many things with them - that's why I love ... When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... laundry list of things going on in my life that can possibly make me tired ... of stairs, but I can’t hold my breath for the entire time it takes for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  about these things can be comforting in times like these. You never have ... better than what I've seen in the wake of these events that have happened. I've never felt more proud of the MIT community  than I have in these

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  , and no doubt some of you will be in fields I can't even describe because ... 've achieved and what you'll do in the next few years, I'm awed.  Every day I can ... perceptions can't possibly be correct. I'm just a freshman.  I don't have years

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish ... the most efficient operations I have ever seen; you walk in, they look ... me 'weak' (娇气)"]all in the span of about two minutes.[/annotation] As I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  Today I finally filed the tax returns I’d been putting off since March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New ... . . . while, yes, I can still get it back (New Zealand allows you to file tax

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021