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• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone ... documentaries! Recently I've been thinking a lot about my future. I've written ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  's been exactly two years since I pressed the submit button on my MIT ... ago.  I have other things on my mind. The thermodynamics midterm next ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... - Mechanical Engineering When I was a freshman, I filled up my IAP with so many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . Oh my goodness.) The couple to my left don't speak much English, but ... where Yosemite is. I thanked him. Now that I'm done chatting with my ... conference in Long Beach, California. MIT and the NRAO split my travel, hotel

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... . The other day, I called Allen, one of the underclassmen in my wing, and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a ... – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... ? That my experiments didn’t work? That the effect I investigated is likely

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  floating. Days passed and they would blur into one another, I neglected my ... just playing a game of distraction. As of late, I've been watching my life happen before my eyes like a movie of some sort instead of actively

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  would find my niche. Yet I had lingering worries of how it would be like ... very quickly.  I have always loved my [annotation note="with few ... snowball of second-guessing my answers. In most humanities classes, on topics

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed and on my own hours, which was very useful when I was in Pacific Time

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  awesome shop guys (particularly Bill and Tasker). I built my first gearbox ... receiver on it.  It's not pretty, but it drives. At the end of lab, my ... "Spatula Bot") that tries to climb the steep hill by keeping my center of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... do both AND watch an episode of “Glee” just blows my mind. Did I mention that, after my awesome weekend, my Wednesday problem set deadline

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  tell me about your research? Al: I’m having a blast! My current ... medicine for my taste. There are times when I seem to make no progress and I ... just hope I could drop all my classes and spend all day in the lab. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  think I'd have to be a true ambassador of my classmates. And indeed, when ... my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer ... consider to be my friends. I thought I'd fit right into the environment

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  can see the anxiety running strong through all my old blogs. these days ... a new lease, changed my hair and speaking style and health routines ... own preferences from my spiritual awakening: i’m not saying your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  felt like this was sort of my last real semester at MIT. this is ... of sorts.  i was more conscious of trying to get done with some of my ... Topology!"]CI-M,[/annotation] finished my last PE class and declared Writing

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so ... f*ck up bro, what are you even talking about?” my sister said to that. MIT was my dream. Between the being able to make whatever you want and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  of my days as a competitive programmer, when the time complexity of an ... throws off my todo list. i'm also taking 6.S050 programming language ... other friends in the class, my top advice for picking classes. i love how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my ... that as soon as my eyes opened and fell upon the words “Columba livia”, my life would change forever. People say that this type of media, a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  over blue examination booklets, and stops at me scribbling away at my ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my ... halfway mark of my time at MIT. I felt like there were too many stories left

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... stumbled as I walked, tripping over my feet a couple of times. In a panic, I looked around. Had anyone noticed? Had anyone seen my misstep? But there

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022