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• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  life where you have to investigate why your brain is failing at doing ... were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  that has never failed to carry all of my stuff, both the useful (e ... I really ought to be well-rested if I want to be up and ready to stuff my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  seemed to get. I was initially a little hesitant to use Google Forms as ... initial light bulb moment to my friends who patiently helped me crank out ... about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off ... tried, the moment refused to hit me. Almost accusingly, I remember, she pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow ... song begins, arrows begin moving from the bottom of the screen to the top, and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  -shifting; while I was only thinking about how it might change me, I failed to ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  never failed to be astonished by lush foliage and volcanic mountaintops ... crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a tl;dr, here's the document I used to present my final project (edited

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear ... right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  a relatively dishonest manner. Failing to recognize early that I was ... Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  out of the room to retrieve the guy who had initially set all this up ... leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... : before disappearing again. Back to blank wall. We figured that someone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  I finished up my initial stay in Mumbai towards late December, and ... /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating ... , postdocs, visitors, etc. from all over the world. I was exposed to big ideas

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  . As Sabrina described vividly, even the initial subject line seemed ... House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  the leagues restarted, I began working to get ahead of the initial ... hours within about 3 days just to stay ahead of Brenda, when I initially ... is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can't tell is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  finished it, and gave it to Morgan (do I have to say that he's the professor ... talking to someone, and I'll be like "my boyfriend Adam" and they're like ... write the first draft of the whole thing and submit it to some journal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  but failing to decipher any semblance of a plot. That is what Sleep No ... events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  that I was certain I would fail, I stepped into the shower to be greeted ... It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... think it's important to recognize this. There are some truly beautiful entries here. So that's the motivation behind this entry: to repost some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  initiatives that sound interesting to you even if they do not have a place in ... had any advice they wanted to give to the upcoming class.     ... your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017