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• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... to-do list that includes “takes out the trash” and “find a place you ... FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way ... years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  take a trip to Hasbro's world headquarters, conveniently located in ... overnighting. Faxing was considered, but in the end the letters were given to a ... Every once in a while something so noteworthy comes along that it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to ... , though. Long in advance, my father had planned to come up to MIT that same

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• 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 ... facilitated this. good thing i’ve now placed myself in a job where i get to ... a college campus (and at my alma mater no less) exposes me to random

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

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... ’s not about finding the right answer to a problem. My only job is to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  useful to have some flour in a shaker jar. It makes it a lot easier to dust ... Kind bars (in addition to being a lot more expensive...) are more ... of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  the legislature that was being put in place to mend a post apartheid ... first time working in a bio lab so I knew very little in practice to begin ... and conditioned to view the US in a specific way for so long that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... be: A mission operations engineer in Tokyo, flying a lunar lander to ... continent to continent with all my possessions fitting in a hiking backpack

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  to find a way to make Jerusalem "just, peaceful and sustainable" by ... After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring ... professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  want a small fridge in your room. Hold off on getting this until you find ... assignment. Dorm lighting tends to disappoint. Invest in a desk light or even ... finished that essay at 3AM. Some people find a wall-mounted whiteboard to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman ... room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved ... in a room that had begun to feel wholly not-mine. I remember the first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  , and in the following Problem Set, you might be required to cure a ... ’ll probably be required to do it in your major anyway (even a social science ... me. Stay in touch, friends. Talk to upperclassmen. They are your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  didn't stick around to find out. Upon reaching said class, our teacher entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment ... thesis proposal about to be turned in. Reese what are you doing that is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  at chemistry or biology, or a physics genius when compared to my ... knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  makes a huge difference. finding how to sustain myself while living in EC ... community in EC, i have to find a balance between sustaining my own culture ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  …no shame in being warm :) And get ready to have a great time! ERICK ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some ... warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In ... and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw ... to measure the amplitude of a triangle wave and its derivative. We

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  opportunity ever to participate in a mystery hunt runaround. A few pictures ... soon as I find my camera cable) So Thursday night, we went to Betty ... @MIT, you could grab a bite to eat before the performance begins. After

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005