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  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  my new year's resolutions. Since I didn’t blog that much during the spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and ... braids for the first time. Luckily, I got my hair done by another student

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  :)). Anyway, as you can tell from my post tittle, I wanna talk a little bit ... at MIT and my crazyfrightenthelivingdaylightsoutofme 9-paper exam at ... though, because I love what I am studying! My life:    Anyway back to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  are some more updates on my travels thus far (I made it a "supersize ... :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... over my presentation for a bit, then stretch my legs and walk around for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  and so I have decided to share my (bad) poetry and my peers' (good ... class that's showed me how to be more comfortable with my writing and take more risks. Though my poetry isn't good by any means, I thought it would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , and when I checked My MIT account it said that there wasn't an interviewer available in my area and that the interview had been waivered. I ... greatest enjoyment in participating in. How bad will this look on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing a certain buoyancy into my steps which match my momentary lightness of ... day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  on in my life: it feels like there's nothing going on. or maybe, more ... all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on ... to spend a whole week studying. i kinda wished both of my finals were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  ’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... when the Bad Ideas Weekend email (and subsequent reminder email) hit my ... Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  extensions way past reasonable deadlines. Along with my S^3 Dean and other ... almost everything about my life at MIT, including my major, but excluding my living group. I started multiple drafts about not dealing well with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  twelve. My big sisters were excited about the new house, but I wasn’t. I ... . The back yard was mostly dirt and tumbleweed, and my sisters and I ... , two of my sisters shared a room, and my other sister’s room could only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  everybody has way more free time to spend on the Internet, so my internship ... person I had planned to use my entire housing stipend on a very nice ... history - has really reframed my priorities in life. So, instead of living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... to see what just sprang out of my pen and what was really hard to write ... have mixed feelings about my own writing in the moment, as one does, but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say that my January was more representative of the average student’s here. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  icebreakers that I’ve done this year are somehow more interesting than usual; my ... our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is currently kicking my ass"]6.1210[/annotation] TA asked us for our favourite

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think about applications and a mEng, my GPA and the quality of my research

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  . This sort of sentence has been one I've had trouble saying throughout my ... , which is honestly an okay ratio in my opinion. Especially at a school ... earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... am already feeling the need to wear a jacket my right eyelid has ... case earlier - my sleep schedule is actually better than it was in years

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  st.  three years ago, my sister wrote the November Rule blog. a year ... freshman year[/annotation] and with a senior in my direct social circle ... many upperclassmen, including my own sister, saying "that's a horrible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of MIT, or because I left my high school, or because I am officially no

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a ... me happy When dining has my favorite muffins for breakfast Waking ... it rains and I get to wear my rain boots When it rains and I get to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017