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• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  ] Daylight Saving Time For some reason, the shift in daylight savings threw my ... efficient work before my bed time. Lately, I've been spending at least half of that time watching Please Don't Destroy videos [+50 aura] because my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep ... . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look at my grades when they get released. when gradescope or canvas tells me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  I first saw the class in the course catalog during my freshman year. I ... no one other than Ed Schiappa. But then to my dismay I saw that the ... nervous since I'm not super confident in my writing, but all of the topics

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

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the question: What is my best and worst trait? He admittedly didn't answer with my best trait and instead replied with my worst, saying that it was my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT ... was now wearing my MIT jacket around school as a student and not an applicant.   That was my first Admitted Student Gathering in March 2013

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  my courses at MIT than I have on all of my biology classes I’ve ever taken, and my evolving road has left a record of all the things I ever ... belonged to the previous owner of my MIT username (they’re recycled after we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  place. You see, I'm a freshman, and therefore my current resume consists ... ". "Career" is not really a word in my vocabulary yet, blogging is the closest ... …), remembering that it was Career Fair, and sleepily trudging in my MIT hoodie down

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a ... ?” Me: * And then I went back to reading my Martha Stewart Living

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  fly until post-MIT - in the meanwhile, I'm mostly spending my time ... signing up for it.  It sounded pretty shiny.  In classical me mode, my first ... give those to you?" "Only if you don't crash." "NOOOO I WANT MY

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and ... the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... idea pop into my head at the strangest of moments, and quickly jot it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  - Ineedtobeliterallyandfigurativelypluggedin (typing without spaces is another idiosyncracy). My left [shift ... my architecture studio professor crazy. So I finally changed my mind. AND ONE THING I REALLY HATE IS USING SPACE ON MY COMPUTER - via you know

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  weeks ago. It was a momentous occasion in my life, a turning point from ... see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... look out my window and to the left; if I look straight ahead, all I see ... into my MIT routine, having done laundry once (be impressed!), as well as

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0.00 on my TechCash account. Do you realize how hard this is? This is like ... got a hold of my laptop and started sending even more lobsters out to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  , throbbing arms, and various bruises that colorfully decorated my 5' 4'' frame ... , these injuries were pretty much my own fault. Because my EMT-B state exam ... and triceps might need to be a larger part of my life - asap!! I was

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  It was my freshman year, not long ago When I arrived at MIT, complete ... -bar package of Dial Gold My mother said, with the old Asian flair, "Don't buy ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... are my stepdad, you are probably laughing so hard you just fell out of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... 've already talked about what the deal is with my research (I'm continuing from

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  little '12 after my Facebook status because I'd been, in truth, intimidated ... asking one of the members for an autograph which, WAS, for my friend who ... was my Bible. I think I touched base on all the categories of events. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008