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• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... instance, i remember feeling little pangs of resentment whenever one of my ... regularly bled over into my life and their victories regularly uplifted me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... the things that occupied my mind at the time was hydrant, this project

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  , I didn't really know. But here's what I did. My first plan of ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... say as I check my email and look at timestamps), the 7.012 staff

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  . (I keep putting off my Art Scholar application, so alas, I did not have ... got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing ... , weekday hours, and so I fill my newfound spare time with other things. In ... from Chinese recipes that my mother sends me when I ask her for help

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  -related insights and expectations I had collected during my first few days at MIT. I ... . Just as surreal as it was to get my acceptance more than four years ago. And just as surreal as it was to hold my MIT ID card in hand, staring

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  It’s my [annotation note="yes, this is inspired by Amber’s lovely post a few weeks ago"]birthday[/annotation] today, and one of my ... this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  perfectionists, at least a little bit. A quick survey of my friends suggested that my perfectionist tendencies are probably more pronounced than average ... high standards for my work, despite often not meeting them. I hate

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... hours, too. Also, thank you for your lovely responses to my last post. I ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  still had one or two hours every day to occupy my brain with something before it gave up for the day. my original plan had been to work on my ... 's not free though"]assets for a game![/annotation]. it's been on my list

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... empty my schedule is. The truth is, however, like any MIT student with ... nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... limit and carry-on backpack, I was ready to embark on my first stop -- San ... . Shoutout to my friends (two from MIT!) for coming to watch and cheering me on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to ... from me. So anyway, there’s my first compelling reason to come to MIT ... in full supply. I am sitting in my palatial room in East Campus as I

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  would post updates from my West Coast trip after I returned, so, here is my trip report, with 100% more screaming toilets than I had anticipated ... med school.   My flight was delayed due to ongoing construction at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  exciting~ This is my second time blagging from abroad, the first being ... I’m traveling to a country that has none of my family members in it. My father’s relatives live in Ethiopia, some of my mother’s in China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  nothing tragic or terrible happened to me that prevented me from taking my ... help me reschedule my Monday final to Friday. He was super nice (as the S ... the “OX” in my grade report as a placeholder until then. I said I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  MyMIT account here: http://my.mit.edu You can click "details" on the ... up on your MyMIT tracking page. If you think one of your missing ... interview requests). You can find interview information on your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... out of my room and wearing suits because it's recruiting season. But what if something happens to one of my friends and I can’t be there

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... decided that MIT was the place for me, I spent my weekend traversing the ... fulfilled every point on the mental checklist that made up my housing choices

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world, which throughout my (privileged) childhood had seemed like a stable and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015