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  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  summer, I finally started using Notion! It's an all-in-one workspace that ... example, in the context of blogging, I can write my blog posts on Notion ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight ... one class. Otherwise I’d throw in 6.002/6.007, 6.152, 6.828, and 6 ... (a skill which i foolishly thought I possessed in great abundance prior

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago ... time I've drawn in this sketchbook. During life drawing sessions, a ... during the session. I often think about what my life would be like if I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  calc, I just thought it would be interesting), quaternions, a queer event ... middle school and high school! While I didn't do anything worth while in ... code in the future, once I have scrubbed it). You played as a witch who

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  formulaic.” I’m not sure if the quote that ended up in the article quite ... "] something doesn’t seem right…[/caption] Anyway, I don’t doubt that, in the near-future, advances in computer vision or machine learning would allow

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  ? In any case, when I heard that there would be a demonstration involving ... course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  responsibilities, would I have the self-discipline to still put in the work? I hope ... in high school, though I think I prefer taking it now, when I'm more ... . They wrote it in this picture book I read in third grade. Turns out that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  painless in retrospect but I was a little stressed about it. On the ninth, I ... and I still got in. (Note: This isn’t me bragging about myself being t ... MIT. How else would you? 2. Worst case scenario—you don’t get in. Odds

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... , though I’d never competed or formally trained in any way. As Winter Break ... that first race, but I must have made it down in one piece. I may have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  his University in Egypt where people would sing the songs he wrote. “I ... I got a postdoc here at MIT in physics education research,” he said ... . On the contrary, I would say the majority actually have some struggles

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  , first time driving in Boston, first time picking up my own rental car. I ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in ... thought it would be, perhaps because the road was deserted at 6.30 in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  crops. I didn't notice the stick models in the flowers at first; it would ... I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a ... could not be more proud, and I am certain that you join me in thanking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  got attached to a very energetic Beagle). I would take part in a karaoke ... I enjoyed and did reasonably well in was a confidence booster. Soon ... ’d implemented in an MIT class. All of a sudden, I had something of a resume, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was ... coronavirus times. I found the contrast between my time in 8.02 in the spring and my time with 8.021 in the fall extremely jarring. I went from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  walking there with everyone I would’ve gotten lost. In fact, I did get lost ... never thought I would be coming to MIT to chop stuff. But during REX, for ... make it in less than two hours. Here’s what I made: [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Leetcode fine—it feels like a repeat of my competition math days—but I would ... put in my best effort and keep my eyes on my own paper. I like building ... for “smart”. I am very lucky that, in fourth grade, my parents

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... content during the psets, which would have gone more smoothly if I did the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... people who does and has known since they were five, i am in awe of you ... , thinking that maybe i'd be happier in this one or the other. melissa in a

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for ... structured than they did when i lived in EC or senior haus. i've also had to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017