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• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  Some Reflections It's been a long decade. When the 2010s started, I ... longer an angsty teen. It's been a long year. I changed majors, I started ... . It's been a long semester. I had to take four course 16 classes, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  -conscious about what my body looks like, or, how fat I feel. It's not something that ... Computer Science major, given how "superficial" of a topic it is. But every ... the time, I enjoy it. Sometimes I'm not sure how asexual I am

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed ... . Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places ... that are to come. I'm here to tell you that as long as you don't trip

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... ’s hardness ranged from “quite” to “extraordinarily”; some even described it as ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  apologies. =( So here it is, a long overdue update about everyone's favorite ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  that's supposed to teach you how to be happier and more productive. i was skeptical about it at first since, erm, since when has happiness come in the ... me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  studying for finals, I cooked dinner instead today. =p (it didn't really take that long; i don't usually cook dinner during term just because i ... retrospect, it might have been better to use vegetable stock because beef stock

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... about it, how we won’t actually know what we ended up majoring in until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  . It's been a goal of mine to learn how to code for a long time, but I ... for non-technical audiences. While the assignment took a long time, it ... without any concrete plans on how to achieve those goals. In the spirit of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  kind of makes you wonder how a computer scientist survives so long not ... ; Major Trait: It doesn't matter how early you hand in your work, they still ... vs Cambridge for IB Computer Scientists (it varies heavily based on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  long time D&D/MTG player in HS, it's been nice to get back into the ... have been good fun and as a long time PC gamer it's been a nice return to ... and greets, pub crawls and administrative meetings, it felt like I was a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  (Course 24)), how long he has had this UROP (about five months), which ... week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of ... graphs. (At this point he broke it down into pieces that even I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... my friends at home and I heard some cursing in the lab, so it might be ... decided it was best to cook most of our time here. Despite the expense of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear with me, because it'll seem really appropriate once I explain it (Bonus ... I see it the way I do. I was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but I don

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  ." And it did work. And even today, more than 20 years later, it still does ... , how it operates, the innate and unspoken cultural references and use ... love that MacIIsi for its games. Shufflepuck Cafe, Oregon Trail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  it, that you can't understand until they happen to you. And then there ... ' tv show record scratch* OK, so you're probably wondering how I got here ... , and just rereading it now stirs my heart: https://mitadmissions.org

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  , which is one of the reasons I like it so much :) [annotation note ... my first college quizbowl tournament!!! It was the aptly-named Early ... night. This was a lot of firsts for me: first time driving on a long trip

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  camp two years ago, when we were all crashing andrew's room and it was the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... ), just listening to the soundtrack or watching other people play it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to ... how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... the long, introspective part for a later entry, once I've had a chance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  storage, where it would be kept, and for how long. I didn't really trust ... undergraduates. Since it's so long, I've broken it up into sections: Monday ... 's safety, but it still hurt. It also showed me how much my college experience

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020