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• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  breathlessness of an unforgotten moment. There's an infinity of worlds that I can ... sunlight, crystallize it in glass forever. Sometimes I succeed, but it ... regular basis, or that I would forget the existence of misery in the world

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  pursue paths where my best qualities don’t get a chance to shine. I can ... someone. I can go to lectures and do my homework and pass my classes, but at a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to

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

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk ... very appealing. Maggie: I actually had a phase in high school where I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  interesting too. Look at some of the cool things you can do while at MIT! I would've never thought I could do something like this in high school, and here we are. Oh and one last thing-- in my post about IAP plans, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... myself with the strongest support system I could ever imagine in order to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label ... lifestyle doesn’t take advantage of the perks of living in EC—I don’t spend a ... like that? What are your hours? Can I even trust you anymore? (Absolutely

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  -spaced pages in Word later, everything made sense. Or at least I hope it did ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... seasons can be in New England. This is nothing short of a Monet, and it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  group, and I still can’t believe I got in. ... stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... semester, I knew I couldn’t stay in all three groups. But I really didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  , and oftentimes even while doing [annotation note="I can only do this if ... my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this ... ever again! As a side benefit of obsessively using Libby, I can go into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs ... place anybody in four generations of my family came from is Indiana. (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I ... rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are ... shouldn’t I talk really loudly in the deep lounge at 2am” and “why shouldn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... ? That’s fantastic! I can relax, travel, take some classes, get an ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . obviously i can’t prove this is what happened in each scenario, but i believe ... damaging ways trust, i’ve decided, is really about power. as in, i can ... . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought ... taking better care of myself. I can’t control the unexpected things in ... please, bear with me). What I can control is how I handle myself in every

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  abstract concept that I don’t think anyone can describe completely in a ... felt ways I can’t possibly describe in words as well as I’d like to. And ... :) _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ So last time I poured out all that I had in my brain regarding my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  . Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice ... accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... breezed through back in the Stone Age when I was taking 8.02 (seriously, I ... lesson in RLC circuits to the seniors in AP Physics. I must be getting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  - thanks! Now I can link my parents here so they can stop asking me how the ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit ... choices. So. We are now in a new semester! Here's what I'm taking: 8.02t

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006