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  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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  squeeze in a few more statics equations between lectures. I would sit alone ... me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I ... in class yet, and would be discussing in next lecture. It had never

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  that story all over again. I thought getting my bachelor's degree would ... if I got in, hear if I got funding, etc. I still believe, however, that ... to wait for me. I have three months left in my undergraduate career

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  it would be like if I didn’t go to MIT, if I went to college back in ... classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a ... different days than they normally would, which messed up the times I allotted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  . They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank ... So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Nicholson, and Charlie Sheen. It was pretty interesting but I would not highly ... (yet, unproductive) break. The weather only aided in the inevitable procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a ... 't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012