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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  long and vast life is, yet at the same time, how fleetingly short and ... Little Hunger? Does the Great Hunger dissolve when you think you have found the answer?  It’s a strange movie brimming with symbolism that leaves

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  it isn’t about me. It is about how one of my friends wrote a viral ... exposed. For a moment, I was reminded of the giddiness of first love, how it ... perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  the Bay Area. It doesn’t exactly rain too often either (read: we’ve long ... Before iOS7, Apple’s weather app icon always showed that it was 73 ... amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  , but i think it does need to be specific enough to inform you in making ... ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  do about it. I understand how grind culture is harmful, but I love what ... what MIT does to us. I’ve seen it happen before. But I -- am I upset? I ... , carved long ago into different paths: the 3-mile loop I ran in high school

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it ... wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  is easy, right?   It's hard to stay away for MIT for long before ... Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly ... and over at career fairs. But it can also come about more organically

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  necessarily. Does it mean that there's only one perfect school for every ... the many parents out there. It would be great to "meet" you! The ... decision?" and so on. With so much uncertainty, and their hopes so high, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  can use language, but what does ai tell us about how humans use language ... , and that there would be no point to it if i already knew how to do ... longer. but it doesn’t feel like it’s going to be that long. it feels like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... trips down and back. I only made it down half of the lane when I grabbed ... assignments and learning content makes it so that you have to keep doing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  Oh boy, it's finally here! Everyone's favorite time of the year that we've all been awaiting anxiously for so long... The fall final exam ... EA decisions release! hmm... not that either... I meant, it's time

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  enjoy that experience. It's odd, then, how commuting has won a reputation ... that last one today, prompting me to post. You could say it's how I ... !). As it turns out, my office isn't very far away from where I live. Being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter ... education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying ... attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  shouted, "Wait, where does my foot go next? Wait how am I supposed to put my arm over there? Wait, how does this work?!?!" while hanging paralyzed on ... !), leading to a momentary, but non-negligable, conversation on how I should try

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project should I begin on the airplane?  [annotation note="Spoiler Alert: It ... .[/annotation] In the end, I think there is more to crochet than stitches. It's a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  note="Ouch... apparently that’s how long tailbone injuries take to heal ... occupied while waiting. It’s pretty wild how we went from lobotomies to m ... these types of conflicts. It sucks, but that’s just how things are here

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  should’ve gotten over it by now. Of course, that’s not how trauma works ... ’ll understand what I mean when I say that decisions “snowball.” And it’s how I ... life I’ve lived after the fact), but it does mean I wouldn’t be here

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  there are decisions that i worry about long after i know which choice ... over again, without evaluating it differently. i find that whenever i have to think about this decision, i'm starting from scratch. i think it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  some point. For many, it comes first semester. This is why MIT provides ... (if you got a D or F)."]P/NR.[/annotation] For some, it comes second ... 's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  . How does fire spinning work? Fire spinners use props that they light on ... all of them, but it all depends on how much time you spend practicing ... we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025