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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... times as long. Also, because a sleeper car would cost upwards of $1,000, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... Massachusetts. Similar to the subtle disparity in twilight coloring, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  being is I convinced myself that I will spend my time that I would be in ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually ... ). I figured I would post it here for those of you for whom, like me ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  out three days later.  Everyone told me that I would be fine in a couple ... ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out ... get a break from problem sets, and there were weeks when I would have

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  . Algunas tiendas, como Best Buy, incluso le devuelven dinero en forma de crédito de ... procesador Intel Core i5 o i7. Si puede conseguir el i7 mejor, es más rápido pero más caro, éste será bueno para futuras actualizaciones aunque el i5

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  there’s a level of raw truth in that statement. A kind of truth that I ... environment, not the flower.” And while I’ve always found value in those words, I don’t entirely agree anymore. Our environments and experiences in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... wisdom, but I’ve certainly done it. So here, in a collection of vignettes ...   I like telling people that I’m a six-foot-tall man in my head. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don ... idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... would make sense in a professional setting like an HR department. But

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... -orientation program. So back in June, I signed up for the Freshman Arts Program (FAP ... residents were all really cool people, and that I would have the most fun

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... slept in long underwear), tried to remember who and where I was, and stole ... class, while sitting on a chair in the kitchen; I cried for a few minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  ’t pretend, in spite of the last year, to not be excited about 2017. In fact, I ... :50 A.M. on a Sunday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... :50 A.M. on a Monday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  angst, was ultimately the realization that time was passing. I would never ... on my wing of Next House, I would need to just make that happen. And ... , I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  updates and discuss what you’ll do in the coming week. I’ve been fortunate ... whether I would ever be able to hold down a 9-to-5. I would go to the office, and just sitting in the same room as my mentor would fill me with so

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical classes. I do, but in moderation. In fact, I’m a huge fan of my one ... because when I devote time to one thing, it seems like I’m losing ground in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  years and i would never make much progress on anything in particular and ... in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and ... ) position, which i wasn’t super excited about because i don’t think working in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  , privacy, and autonomy than I ever would have had living in a dorm. However ... . I lived on a Christmas tree farm in Lawrenceville, NJ! For a few months in the fall of 2020, I lived with my friend Paige L. (Harvard ‘23

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  cost?? For the record, I had no social life in high school—I took a ... in order to get a chance at kissing him? What??? I'm mad, y'all. Also ... character development. What I wanted to see more of in this show was Devi

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020