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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  is to say, my high school journal) wherever possible. This might be somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... -TWO AND FIVE-TWELFTHS." My high school was a decent suburban Ohio public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  places, like design and build a vision-capable robot. I love my friends ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... !" Roli, I hope I answered the "why" part above. :) As to the rest...My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country ... so much that I've become personal friends with the teen librarian at my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  years older in the span of a block; the horizon melted from my thoughts ... overwhelming sense of doom would trickle and pool in my chest, like syrup ... nights in the library. My calendar is empty save the occasional social

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this ... health aaaaa aaaaaa trap me in a zero-sum game, as if my disinclination for ... , that I'm just told these things and they echo back in my thoughts as an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  for August. I was continuing my research with the Isola lab on inner ... just loitered around a bunch of places, which is my favorite way of ... missed my flight from London to Paris (first time this happens), so I took

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  up with blogging to my current life, but words are hard. Nothing ... ="101765" image3="101764" image4="101763" /] I took my last final in the Spring and ... . Here's some of my favorite sites: [carousel image1="101775" image2

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  him on my water bottle that travels with me everywhere I go. Today is ...   I just want to see as much as possible, whenever  My jam ... didn’t know how to become WIDE either.  Heck, I didn’t even know my way

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  of music as fun sounds to tickle my brain. sometimes screamy metal best ... [/annotation] of my question. I might as well have asked the group, “do you listen to ... ’ve once described my music taste as all the different flavors of angst

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that is required for my major, so I had to retake it. I failed not just one

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  reason behind my decision to come here was the people: the people I'd met ... be a blogger. The blogs were almost solely responsible for my ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... of my friends asked me “do you believe in true love?” and my response ... my life consuming media telling me that i was supposed to date

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on ... monotony of sending these emails, I changed my email sign-off for almost ... 0 (Normal Sign-offs) Thanks, Best, These are my default email

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  with how well she was able to hold my attention with math content.”- Anonymous Reviewer aka Jeremy in my last post. Some (including my own mom) may ... with this subject at all. If this occurs, then my brain shifts back into

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  !  Here’s my first impressions of those classes: some preconceptions turned ... eat boba with my housemates during the pandemic.[/caption] Liberal arts college fashion! I dressed well for my first day of Harvard classes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... often have trouble wrapping my head around, and it can be very frustrating ... 's written on the board into my notes with a five minute delay from when it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  it way too seriously, but a lot of my friends have recommended it so i ... out okay. i think the real conflict here is that i’ve spent much of my ... help with them; i’ve also spent enough of my life having exactly one

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  action movie. I miss wiping away my tears on the Loop lounge sofas and having one of the cats on the floor take notice of my sadness and plop themselves right next to me. It was one of my favorite things, where, after a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... better at being at MIT, I've lost my grip on writing. I used to end a long ... 've been ending my days with 30 min on Netflix. I get ideas for blog posts

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  , I mean.']special significance[/annotation] as the day I began my life ... enormous, too [annotation note='I remember, shortly after I got my job I think, learning from a friend that my high school robotics coach, Neil

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019