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  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... , I'll share them here. I would like my sophomore year to be less rough ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... several-month homestay, which I imagine will be an adventure. The hike

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... , everything would be TERRIBLE and I would be SCREWED. But that didn’t happen ... the Charles river. If you ever find yourself on campus, I would highly

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  participate in community service. In NCAA Division I competition, Gethers has ... Carolina], will graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. A Truman Scholar

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  section[/annotation] is “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (lyrics) by Mike Posner ... answer that. “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” encapsulates all of these feelings ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  its star. I will, however, say that the Caine's Arcade website is ... and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the junk yard and the trash and in school recycling bins. But he never got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  one. Remember when I was a contestant in a blogging scholarship a while back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... for so many votes, but in the end it all worked out (I hope!). My prize

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  into a skillet to brown, and throwing in whatever vegtables I happen to ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the ... am as an omnivore. Earlier in the summer I'd do about two meals a day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  problem of dirty and disease-ridden water. A “pill you put in the glass,” a ... . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... Matt Damon? The actor? I thought MIT Commencement speakers were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  , and I started thinking about Naruto and how he would have reacted in my ... it would be, or what exactly to say, but I guess it’s always good to ... lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that ... [/annotation] so I was phone-less for a week or so and had to buy a new phone. 6

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at ... admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is popping up here and there on Facebook. My guess would be that this doesn

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in ... 's website. I didn't feel like sifting through the actual dataset for a minimax

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  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 / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my ... roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... caught up in camp-life. I braced myself for all of the academic challenges

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011