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• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it ... one simply cannot afford such luxury. this semester, I have gotten to ... losing funny points in front of Jonathan, the constant struggle of man to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students and real adults) can be hard to deal with, especially since it is tricky

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an ... what I remember (please note my memory is faulty and not subject to the ... ’s one thing to design a web app and another to build it, which can be very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a number related to your credit history, which is something that people like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately, nobody was ... question. Panicking, I said the first number that came to mind. "Okay," she

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , dropped isn't the correct word. I neglected to [annotation note="I am so, so dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational ... for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... which we were originally okay with because it was just like dorm living to ... 's no warm water in the sink or any hooks to hang and dry your towels or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider. every student has some attachment to campus that makes their current ... .  I won't be able to return to it even when things are normal again

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  introduced her to the old YouTubers I watched like The Try Guys, Dan and Phil ... quiz three years ago and was told he was an INFJ. He wanted to do this ... about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... ; we're moving from one world to a new, very different one. My routine is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since this program is only open to MIT students, the application pool to these

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... home. I’d come out to my parents. I’d failed my first MIT exam. Looking ... , anything that reminded me of the things I’d decided to leave behind. As I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 teams competed to see who could climb up the 18-story Green Building the ... -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  , religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in ... ’s easy to take for granted the haven that is created Under the Dome, where ... weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... imposter syndrome feeling. I've tried to shift my focus from what grades I get relative to my peers onto whether or not I'm taking full advantage

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017