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• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  assignment systems. It’s still very much in the works, but I hope to talk more ... Coryat scores and how I do in different categories. It’s helping me ... 2020, I continued a tradition started in 2019 where ESP members went to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14 ... cool, so i think i'll be alright. lots of calculus in both this class and ... notes and can confirm i am interested. CMS.307 - Critical Worldbuilding

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  boss says "he's here this month while MIT is in hibernation"), but I don ... 's typically pretty loose, and as long as I put in a full day, my exact arrival ... One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in ... early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  and see more people, and I never knew how good it can be to be in Boston ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... -physical amount in three months. But same difference!) I had such a bad spring I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  time I step on a scale, I find myself doing the BMI calculation in my ... 's another thing I can't bring myself to care about, at least, care about ... resting heart rate is about 85 bpm. I can walk up maybe five flights of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  upcoming semester. I can't imagine my first week, month, or year at MIT being ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign ... growth to navigate and survive. Two years later, I can see the importance

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... the MIT bubble, and I didn't really think about how little I actually leave campus until I eventually realized that I barely leave my dorm, let

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... deferred again, i wouldn't react in the same way? many of my friends reached ... rest of your life. you can feel like you want to lie in bed all day. you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  friends I can reach out to. And people probably think more highly of me in ... warned me against ever taking it in the fall. I think the course staff ... , which means I don't actually have to do the work for the class, I can just

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  I look in the mirror I can only see a pity accept. The AOs threw a ... me best can identify a strength. I play this over and over and over in ... lull me to sleep so that I can repeat it all again in the morning. At

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  back on the past four years, I can finally say I do. I can also cross ... until I found myself sorting laundry at 4 in the morning in the basement ... years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  very, very carefully. I can't stay in my room, but at least, just the ... missed. I can't explain it in words, but I feel my self echo back an image ... The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... else comes in for Orientation next weekend.) I went back to my room and ... counting until I was out of Lobby 7, but I got 233. You know, in case you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... than I did now that I can look back on and think about the different ways ... tutor some students in physics, and I would then head home. Here, the day

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  head around how my classmates and i can make so much money sitting in ... i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  rises, I can spot the hills in the distance. One day, I’ll snap out of my ... day and exercise whenever I can. I should invest in a water bottle and ... what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... (partially so I can make everyone call me Dr. Mollie), and I just spent a great ... 's one thing I hate in this world, it's physics). So, applicants, gripe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005