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• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  a big deal.    in fact, most of the point of life is that ... configure our camera, but in the end, all we do is we look at the sky. it is a ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  way that you do. I think at some point in our friendship, I used to ... " because Emma is a doer. She is known to do what she puts her mind to. That ... on something 100%. You have such a way with words in a way that I never

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that ... and you were the first to do so, I said that I will have a little ... ... ...the first thing you think about is a certain protein used in recombinant

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  idea of what I want to do with my life, also known as a double major in ... ?!); I've never even seen snow, so it's a sure bet that I'll be the girl ... , I'll do it even if there are only maybe three and a half of them and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that ... MIT. Despite all my studying, my test average is now a 50.5 in that ... , ending in a preposition; I wonder if a tacky parenthetical fixes that? meh

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  blast doing it. I've always been a performer and wanted to end up in ... in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how ... , excelling. It was a lot of work, but it felt right. I graduated in 2011, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... that you have failed a test is the equivalent of eating a burrito ... . Everywhere I looked, I glimpsed the honest hallmarks of a community that was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  your dreams through negativity. i learned that last year and it is a ... that spiky people tended to interact with others in a logical and ... explained that i was extremely spiky in high school and had been transitioning

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false ... ’s not a one-time decision.  These days, I instead regularly ask, “What do

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  of a chaotic mess that it is – I have freedom to bump into friends and ... my IAP, I took a class called "Spanish Incubator" that takes place in ... nothing. Okay, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  to count towards the degree. It's also flexible in a way that I think ... -theoretic models to explain why they made sense. In a different class I that took ... think like a scientist: "how do I figure out what that structure consists

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  as a person? On my application, I said that the “something” I do for ... that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  . The main problem, I think, is that Zoom fatigue is real. Staring at a ... , whatever, I’ll just meet people in the spring. I’ll do a sort of half gap ... has been a blessing in disguise, then, because it’s not my fault that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not ... mentality of "This is the dorm that, based on what I know now, I want to live in, but my information is not even close to adequate, and I should take

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... MIT in the comments section of their posts. I'm disappointed that I didn't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  by Elena Ferrante, a book that feels inscrutable. It is about a girl in ... certain criticisms in The Lying Lives of Adults. I sense that Ferrante is ... and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  's fence" Chesterton, once wrote that If a thing is worth doing, it is worth ... 'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... point. And the point is that you should do things that are fun, even if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  is startled. I'm sure. But I'm going to do it anyways. I've lost the ... I've broken many, many promises of various entries on this and that in ... a particularly sinister view of what I'm trying to do here), I borrow

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... , I will be done with all psets (this is just a theory). I'll spend the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself ... okay. 2) Asking about anything regarding what I do in math. If this ... much vulnerability, even if it is the social norm. And my job in a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022