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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in ... lasts quite a while. – This semester, I took Disease and Society in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the ... notebooks that I used in high school to learn French and Korean, the two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will learn in college is The Value of Friendship. I have a friend ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked about this a month and a half ago, but the gist is that i’m working in a ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... say with confidence that this is a peaceful and loving city. When I ... violence tend to follow in a vicious cycle that is so so hard to break

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  describe our process, I often do so as "incredibly inefficient in a way that ... other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a ... physically tired from the last week, that was a sign that I shouldn't do any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  ." Just a few months ago, I would never have said that in public to someone ... usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  being a burrito in your bed is not a bad choice as well. 4) believe that ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... doritos—but make peace with myself if there is a week or month where i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  placement is in a charter school freshman Physics class. Every week, I don my ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... . Despite that, I’d recommend anyone interested in the liberal arts to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  studying abroad, I thought I should do a little reflection on my experience ... abroad. I feel that this is also something freshmen should know about ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... . Nobody will know that I shrieked and ran from a guy in a pigeon mask. On ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... been extremely difficult, in ways that I both could and could not foresee

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ." And I put that in quotes because "smart" is really just a way of saying ... , meaning that I was able to start math "a year" ahead in differential ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... vigilant about dental hygeine. In another sense, I'm taking a fiction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  from Home Depot. As a kid I had always wanted to do that. I met a lot of ... ’t follow me. In Rome, there is a running path along the Tiber river that ... smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  , before I’d acted in a way that defined me. There’s this reading I did at ... to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think…  ‘I was worthy ... but that portrait.” Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism Can I claim

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  sense of the word. (I’ve heard that if CPW is like a tangerine, REX is ... -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... is playing that I will forever associate with being a freshman (though

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015