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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... on a farm/retreat in Santa Cruz, and backpacking around Europe. Part

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the changes they make in the real world. Unfortunately the commencement video ...  click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  engaged in real-world issues. Since the posting of the last blog featuring ... , I came in as an [annotation note="Mathematics and Computer Science"]18 ... very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... student-athletes interested in MIT or in playing college soccer in general. I’m a senior in college now, meaning I did my recruiting process

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  , and physical touch--are fine, but love can be found in so many places ... products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... icing. "I wonder if there's a pink food coloring deficit in the world

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it ... myself be bad at things, even if it sucks in the moment.   The only

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

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  MIT, won the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially, the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the ... someone who blogs and is very interested in labor economics and methods of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they ... toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... make friends, and to participate in class events that wouldn’t come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc ... in my hijab? When I found out about Muslim Women’s Day, I immediately ... , because faith is something that is very much within a person. It is in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... , Culture, & Gender in the U.S & Beyond: A Psychological Perspective

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a ... from everything, what with 2015 finally in the horizon, and delve a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... true. Other blog posts recanting the more mundane remind me that in many

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014