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  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  in figuring out what I would do this summer, saying "uhhh probably a ... -absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a very long time! Before that, though, I was in Mexico for two months doing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  every direction before even leaving home. I'd watch in awe as Ellie would ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  .s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I ... … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  more than just a haha???). I would expertly position myself in the ... in a few hours than I have in a few months (I'll blame writer's block ... -lighted many times, I was still definitely in love with him because I could still

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average ... not pay it any attention. In those ten minutes before I’m scribbling ... included the bonus song “Crazier” by Taylor Swift. I was drawn in by the the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I ... in this honest autobiographical essay. Every story I have ever told has ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  was ten, and I was in fifth grade, and now I am twenty, and I am in ... . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Sorry, I will try and write more regularly in ... coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I ... think it's the oddest thing. Some of my friends in materials and I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  sharpener in the back?)... and then I would carefully organize them so they ... this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... stored it in my Athena locker. One of my more notorious quirks is that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  because I was too afraid the narrative would escape me in the morning. One ... I would know when I really knew the meaning of this saying. Thinking ... until I found myself sorting laundry at 4 in the morning in the basement

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... public transportation and in bed, and one on what I do at work. on where I live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like ... , in sixth grade, i remember discussing policies specifically aimed at ... are popular in tourism locations back home. growing up, i'd hear

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in my experiences abroad a few years ago, i would hang out with college

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  breath I would curse myself for not being interested in STEM enough, for ... I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... boss says "he's here this month while MIT is in hibernation"), but I don ... 's typically pretty loose, and as long as I put in a full day, my exact arrival

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  Jose, California. I brought with me all that I would need for the next 9 ... compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury, and after the short program, the first segment, wasn't even sure I would

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  spend in college. if i knew about covid i’d have spent more time exploring boston in the time i was actually there. if i knew everything would be ... home ruminating about things i could’ve done differently in college, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... remember most about Cambridge. As for Biochemistry, I hope students in either ... up to that point are just differences in order. *** One thing I notice

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008