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  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... all my extracurricular commitments, and I can’t emphasize how horrible

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  long internal debate, I decided to drop it. I was nervous to email my ... , and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  interpretations and personal connection to the movie–how it perfectly encapsulates ... stays in its environment too long, I grew accustomed to the “role” and ... media room and watched the movie. He thought it was fine, but I naturally

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  really good and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm a big fan ... couple of crepes. (Note: I wasn't letting it cook long enough. In the ... really fulfilled it, relying on my friends and my boyfriend, as well as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  at the sky and say, I know how the Earth and Moon dance and spin.  It ... morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... . It was raining, and the Charles River was a churning, thick gray

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  Boston skyline are just so beautiful. It’s surprising just how much of MIT ... MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been much longer. Time doesn’t flow at its normal rate when everything around

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  beautiful," it was exactly his kind of place, too. Full of a very wholesome ... place. And how many days have I've sat until my butt was sore and finally given up at 11, or 1 or 2, with these daytime thoughts long gone from my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  of getting better at art, or feeling immersed in how enjoyable it is ... not have time to read at all, i know how inane it is to pursue the ... while. i'm kind of emo about it, but have decided to take advantage of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  cultures and languages, as well as international opportunities at MIT. It ... resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it ... pandemic, with discussions of how policy implementation is influenced by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  hard work.  It's a funny thing, how something as fundamental as winter ... over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season ... start of another day. Winter in Wyoming is its own beast, a stark contrast

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly ... 'm just kidding about the first part. It wasn't that cold. In an attempt to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  , I would have probably done it a long time ago. After all, I did pass ... The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it ... am. I don't know how I did this 2 months ago, how do you pack up

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen ... this view, though - which is undoubtedly how the architect looked at it ... , until one of the people started waving at me - it was Cody! I hustled over

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  and what are some solutions? Memes The banana and how it changed ... . M. Pei's buildings could kill you. I got "The banana and how it ... guess the universe thought I had it too easy, because I then got "How to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  the problem was and then verbalize how to treat it appropriately. Is it ... 's still pretty amazing. Whew. It's been a long and crazy day. Let me just ... the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  major, not a major crisis necessarily, though it certainly is a question ... hinged on me really enjoying physics classes, and I’m just not sure how ... ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  work is long and hard, but that's how you learn. As weird as it sounds, I ... Cambridge-MIT Exchange is that we get this 5 week long break between Lent Term ... at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors ... as my childhood home transformed before my eyes, shedding its former ... sometimes it feels like I didn't. I moved to Minnesota the moment elementary

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  ? Does it not matter because the overall Institute gender numbers are essentially equal? Does it not matter just because it doesn't matter whether the ... write back, “Thanks, Becky! It's so nice to make human communication once

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  and STARS, now it does. Students visiting from Wind River High School (3 ... institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... Arkansas! (I know that looks like a big bat but it's me!)[/caption] This

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024