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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do. There were no class schedules or club meetings to provide some substance

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  _grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I ... 35-year run. So, we booked tickets and set on going to New York to catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... your stomach clenches tighter and tighter, and you just want to scream ... continuing to bother that welt would increase your chances of infection, you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... research. the third one is fulfilling obligations. they all contribute to my ... lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  wrote about all the clubs and classes I was doing. I've decided to revisit ... perspectives to analyze texts emanating from these debates, and present their ... four debate topics this semester as we are required to. My topics are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  instant mood booster. My podmate asked if I wanted to attend our 18 ... to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6:30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that ... . So, I decided to make a blogpost of things-I've-had-to-explain-to-non-MIT-people-a-lot so that when YOU are asked all these things, you can just link them to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how the musical we’re currently listening to, Ghost Quartet, starts, and it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... doorway. Brenda is bubbly and sweet and used to live on this floor and is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... people to buckle under the pressure. I’ve adapted the response I created for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , and this Saturday has been the first time I’ve really been able to ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... this; it’s good!” “We have what you want, sir, trust us!” I turned to ... undoubtedly filled with subterranean aliens would be enough to enforce

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... to note that only some dorms, namely the East Campus (Bexley, Random

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  have their neighbors be eaten by countries, have entries dedicated to ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT ... , listening to lectures, and training in the afternoon. (It's also the reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007