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

  

  part in one of MIT's coveted traditions, and so I gladly accepted an ... 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

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

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  provides physical artifacts of each week, which can go in my [annotation note='i ... annotation, i wrote a grand total of 2 poems in 2020."]write as much recently ... classes Monday through Thursday means that I can't attend practices in full

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  !   *You can find the rest of my and Kevin's pictures here. (I highly ... ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  any of the despartments?" So UROPs are pretty cool, or so I'm told ... space as grad students. The thing is, UROPs can be anything, really. I ... , and I hope it treated everyone well! A couple of entries ago I told you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  , where i know if i put in enough hours, i can do it. if i ask the right ... your class, of course your advisor wants you to graduate. i'm in an ... these things, nor can i participate in them. it's always been easier not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of the hack's serene majesty. Naturally, I was no exception. In spite of ... , hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  , contiguous chunk of free time in my schedule, then I try to avoid these kinds ... the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... that's okay, because I'm (aren't we all?) in this process of finding the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I ... , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved ... want to spend a lot of time on the boards and the blogs, but a guy can

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  interested in, you can find a lot of people doing things around it. For me ... little pockets of the MIT landscape. And I stayed in some, and realized ... . But in doing so, I was losing out on a lot of depth. This semester I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least not for at least another week. I want to talk to you, especially since ... -7) and math (18) and minoring in writing (21W). This fall I will be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  Poetry and Advanced Toy Design. I got a B- in my HASS class, Forms of ... ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  downs: I can think of semester after semester where I have struggled ... , and they did a good job, and I knew in my heart of hearts that I had ... fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew impatient and consumed the rest of the lollipop in two swift chomps. Freedom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  ’s Random Hall weekly-ish study break. In honor of Pi Day Irina O. ’15 and ... dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... ’re curled up in the kitchen watching Veronica Mars, and when I’m done with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just ... skills. BUT - I'm NOT in charge of the mail. Our processing ... sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  crucial to our nation's defense rejuvenated my enthusiasm in ROTC and I can ... Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent ... comprised of C-130s. Thirteen other cadets on the visit and I were split up

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  coffee (coffee grown in Yemen or Harrar region of Ethiopia) knows the first ... about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known as affirmative action. You may

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of ... build a treehouse.” Or, in normal-person-speak: hey, I kind of like this ... because I function in a perpetual state of procrastination. “But Natanya

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010