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  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  't participate in the festivities this year, or else I would drop below the full ... = "Organic Chemistry I, in my learning community Concourse"]CC.512,[/annotation ... [/annotation] earlier in the semester because I had [annotation note = "I’m only

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  students can take part in a variety of opportunities or take a much-needed extended winter break"]IAP[/annotation] this year, I took part in the famed ... time, in which MIT students are sent to dozens of countries around the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don't pass by your house. However, if you live in a big city or within walking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... this semester (told in alliteration because why not?):  1. People Since

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ,”[/annotation] etc. in every sentence, there are two other types of common phrases I ... on me and my fellow frosh. In the aftermath of our last [annotation ... writing UROP applications or playing Tetris in a lounge and someone would

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded ... takes any shift in the winds of conversation in stride. Funnily enough ... friends, August, is a Gemini, and the similarities clicked in my brain

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  of my extended family lives in India, so being raised in Nashua, New ... . however, in the past few weeks, I've been confronted with more and more ... sleep. I met my host grandfather in my freshman year of high school, when

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park ... in the tunnels as you chugged along, like a dinosaur diorama showcasing ... waited to make my transfer to the red line on Park Street. Being back in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really considered before. Introduction CMS.621 hasn't been taught in seven years, with ... I first saw the class in the course catalog during my freshman year. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... Cartesian vectors, except in polar coordinates, so there's a vector pointing in the r direction and a vector pointing "in the 𝛉 direction," which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  together in the TV Lounge, drink tea and eat snacks, and talk about stuff ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines ... . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... on anonymous MIT Confessions. 1. A summer discovery In my freshman year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... 'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... leave anything in [annotation note="my dorm"]MacGregor House

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... 've taken before. Joon's in it with me too! 6.902 + 6.911 + 6.912 (GEL) - GEL ... different UI modalities we'll be learning about in the class. CMS.362 (Civic

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk ... in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  And psych! Happy April Fool’s Day! I didn’t celebrate it in ... ’t seen her in nearly nine months, so I was shaking with all the excitement ... melodramatically shrieks, “Avada Kedavra!” at Harry Potter in the penultimate forest

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... a very bright yellow bag tucked under the seat in front of him - it ... research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) headquarters in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013