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• 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 ... upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at ... . So, I decided to make a blogpost of things-I've-had-to-explain-to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  gives me freedom to spend most of my time how I want with the occasional ... to forget how to just be a person with the craziness of this place ... we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... allowing her to see me binge dining hall food.[/caption] My freshman year, I ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  thing, though, it’s more just an observation. One way to describe how I ... The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that point yet?” I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry ... to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room ... times. i just want to get homework done!! and do nothing else!!! but ever

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... how they're so different from what we're used to studying and why

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  . (This is mainly due to how awesome and entertaining these poems are.) For ... sneakers snap and no umbrella or plastic bag! How ever would you go back to ... about August yet. If that doesn’t give you an indication of how fast time

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  sessions too often when it got closer to "bedtime," and you can see just how ... , decompressed, and ready to get going again. And that's how you resurrect ... From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth birthdays were events she wanted to forget, and how she sometimes had to make ... things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... how 18.01 is a prereq and 18.02 is a co-requsitie for 8.02. Since I tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write ... commonly) are free to put as much or as little money as desired on the card

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell ... .370 Robocraft competition); I think he wanted to find out how he could join the ... sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  astronomy you're interested in. It's important to see how a different mentor ... future graduate student Anna who knows how to focus on a project and see it ... As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  , saying "hey Anna, remember how fun Annie was? Remember how much you love to ... 's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  I graduated from MIT and a year and a half after that I moved to ... completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was ... Tesla rolled autopilot out to its cars.  My desires grew deeper.  Being

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  , the deeper that path got. It’s important to learn how to tell yourself ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  the ChemE building), I actually have time to shop at Trader Joe’s at ... school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in ... , though, I was lucky to make it into Boston (and I’m excluding visiting the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010