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  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the computer science side with a side of brains, or focus on the brain side with ... full of paints I brought with me to MIT sat idle as I hatched away on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  less a zombie for that. Speaking of which, sleep is very important ... of my goals right now are related to becoming a better mechanical ... ="typically classes are 12 units each, so an average semester is 48-60 units, or 4

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  music as much, which is sad. i'll try to get back on that. God of War ... is such a good song and i cannot wait to make an emo cover of it The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out To Get Us by Sufjan Stevens: this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  point of this blog is to say that: robotics is really really hard lol ... continuing to bother that welt would increase your chances of infection, you ... own advice hehehe I stayed up all night to catch up on a problem set

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  is finally starting to soothe that angst. It’s too easy to fixate on ... Delivery is a major milestone where sophomores receive their brass rats to ... to make a circle skirt out of a thrifted dress with a beautiful ukiyo

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  of starting to appreciate art museums, which, looking back, I am so ... , to the strangers I made dinner with after a final, on a floor of East ... of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  new ways to teach. At MIT, an institution which is at the forefront of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader ... of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , measurable impact on the world is slim to none, but each of us must have a ... part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  compared to Methuen or Salem, which means there is finally sidewalk. I thank ... -wise, try to walk on asphalt instead of on dirt, mud, or snow, even if the ... she plans to eat them, which is one of the worst of tomato

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  be a Havard student, which is how I learned all of this. I imagine ... intelligible, which is why it's inaccurate to call them dialects, as some ... to make kare-kare without atsuete. Which was fine, because atsuete is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  . He gave some helpful advice, the most memorable of which is to aim to ... physics classes. The students in the class of 2022 and 2023 were put on an experiment, where they could choose to take three of these on Pass/No Record

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... myself first. To which they (essentially) said “Is it really hurting your

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  one big thing, which was the impetus for this leg of the trip, was to ... on one end of the store and have it transported to the other ... arranged for one of their staff members to give us a private tour, which was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  started going to et more often. in spring of 2023, cj [annotation note ... very well or talk to him very often. time passes. frosh fall was when i really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via ... in the MCU (and is from the Boston suburb of Sudbury), seemed to ... evening, or early Sunday morning (it's always hard to tell with those who do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  -postcard of Marlon Brando, which is nicer to look at than the green plastic pot ... purpose is entirely unknown to me. Neither of my parents had an explanation, so I'm guessing they're related to woodcarving or archery and that they

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... kind of unhinged humor that is unique only to Jenny and being bullied ... . unironically, one of the most important lessons out of my time at MIT is to just

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  /shows/concerts/etc....we'll work on it. All of this is to say - I'm doing well. There have been a ... to be starring in a Picture of Dorian Gray play here on Broadway. I am ... lessons! doing Spanish classes. One of my goals in life is to attain

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... the sexiest internships (and not the ones which are interesting or different or that you'd like to do and learn from), and then going straight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012