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  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  lived in SF for over a decade, you'd think that by now I would have found ... they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... TikTok in 2025 delivers more dopamine than we would experience in an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set in Boston/Cambridge because I was curious and I read American Panda by ... - Accomplished...in a bit. I'm signed up for PearlHacks happening in February

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  essential things in life, like sleeping (I HAVE TO BE AT BREAKFAST BY 7 AM ... keep capitalizing the "Very Important" descriptor. Back in December, I ... you to buy things off its own website? Was there some revolutionary

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  organized. I would love to have a file cabinet in my dorm. Is that allowed? Will I be able to find one in campus? (possibly for free?) I would hate ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole ... introduced me to, and which I think about a lot MIT websites (5) "Emerson

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  would be to be proactive in finding people I vibe with, and to look ... in RTA would give me clarity on what I want to do for my last three ... . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  would that be? Are there other websites to look at? And then I realized ... is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... service in high school marching band). I mean, it just never stops, does it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  relevant to my life/things I would actually buy or not!) So I thought today ... the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high ... personalities. This is in part why one of my favorite websites this year has been

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don ... , Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy ... John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  explanation; I had crafted it carefully while waiting in line. What would his ... spent walking through one of new chapters in the book, which I won ... .com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... which I was just a spectator, we decided to try to name all the cities in ... people in the wing. we buy a cake, sing our own version of happy birthday

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  bc I got his name verbally) is an ABSOLUTE GEM!! His energy would brighten up my day immensely. I'd buy an ($8.00) sandwich from him just to ... someone who hasn’t changed their Chipotle order in years, I appreciate how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  I used the Lagrangian on a test in the vain hope that this would amuse ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to read the previous paragraph, in which I describe my 8.022 exam in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... /call my EC? Just "Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm applying to MIT... I would ... gone an hour and a half after I put it in the freezer). On 5th East, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be ... progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  women. How to use: Personally I would not opt to stay in a strange man ... living in a hostel -- I imagine that would be draining after a month ... my life. I'm really, really glad I did it. But would I do it again in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... . Then, I bought a banana plant. Did you know you can just buy banana ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021