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  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  into reality. I'm not sure if I believe in that. What I do believe in is ... : I need to stop throwing all my clothes in the dryer. When I saw that a ... concept but it is harder than it sounds in practice. On that note, I want

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... cat is cuddling with it. I live in horrified amusement at the idea that ... there is a distinct possibility that PUF has been hanging out in the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  email. (Also, that's why I haven't called in a while, Mom.) Actually, to ... Saturday. I sort of forgot that MIT is hard, as I tend to do, and then after ... that will suffice. So I'm trying something new this time, a new reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  messing up a prototype more times than I expected, and that engineering is ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... the way, I saw a wind turbine, which made me happy because everything in

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  confidence that I have never struggled in a class as much as I did in 2 ... I want to do, which has left me swaying quite a bit between staying in ... much in that position.  But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  be doing, and i'm grateful for that. i watched a lot of bojack ... recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... profoundly grateful that this field of study even exists, that i get to do work

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  I also knew that there were a few people in my hometown who sort of ... tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not ... undergrad four years ago. I am also adding in some reasons that I didn't know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... Coryat scores and how I do in different categories. It’s helping me ... , which is a struggle because I am not a course 6. Ack. Writing blogs

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... in the differential equation, the system that is my life, and I am oh ... linguistics, I recently started a UROP that has to do with the rhythm of speech

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  test that I keep in a special place that I take out and read through and remember a time when I used to feel smart: The test is from the Fall 2004 ... Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  that I knew no Americans in the city for the first week and a half or so ... mates on a retreat in June. I never knew that French people liked the YMCA ... been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2 ... is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... at mit. in that same vein, there is this sense of awe at "wow, i cannot

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  about that. I saw people from a few different groups in the past month ... , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... people I see feel like the only evidence that I actually had a freshman

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

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  and seniors that I knew in the program. I think I may have seen a flier ... program who’s also a chemical engineer and I think that whatever she does is ... . So, in a way, the reasons that I entered have been beyond fulfilled

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... often. Believing in one’s own infallibility is a dangerous drug. I’m far ... that my life is, in many ways, like a mediocre TV show. They

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  ) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed ... Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I ... rest in the cold. The tests showed that the thickness of the underwear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  . Polina Anikeeva) is a big comic book fan and uses that passion in her ... appendix for a more detailed account. The TL;DR is that I needed a major ... that summer. Nevertheless, I feel like 6-2 is a neat, happy ending to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  chief-of-staff at a startup in the Web 3.0 space, so I agreed to do some ... that I'm involved in! Traveling: I went back home to Portland for a few ... in-person or remote. I knew that I could stay at WILG if I interned in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  . On thing that's strange about taking this class is being in a class ... entire show that Valjean never sings at all. I was Javert in my high ... now hand twins. That is the only episode of "Friends" that I have ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  that it's a bad habit i picked up from mit, because in college, no one ... is about. i tell myself that i'm working at a startup, but i don't have ... or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022