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  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
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  that MIT has made it that far. Physically, retirement means my body is ... . Logistically, ~15 hours of my week suddenly opened up. Emotionally, I miss it a ... write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  , too.  (My personal favorite is to hear the chemical engineers and ... pretty indecisive my freshman year because I felt like I had a wide range ... looked at the shelf above my desk and realized realized how much machine

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... this frat. But I will say that after coming to MIT, my opinions of ... friends. I remember one of my friends articulating this well, saying one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It ... finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  , highlighting my accomplishments, challenges I'd overcome, my individuality, and my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ... with A LOT of anxiety about whether my writing came across as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  the story. Tickets were a couple thousand dollars. But, my friends and I ... after finishing my purchase and breathing a sigh of relief did I realize ... before they printed out a badge for me that had my first name on it twice

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  each and every day, and my meeting with a Professor Hammond gave me the ... like you in that kind of way ;)” vibe. In my mind I would not be happier ... just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  , so I’m going to talk about my eventual decision now that my schedule ... Basic 14 over the summer because I (a.k.a. my parents) wanted the ... consume. During my first two weeks (twenty-eight meals!) I ate at the dining

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  way more time in my dorm than usual. Sean Collier's memorial service was ... student organizers my cellphone number, and they told me to expect a meat ... charcoal, but not nearly enough. My vice president and I made a 11:30pm run

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  've been to my fair share over the years...). Claire '14 and Logan '13 ... opposition to my previous claim. In any case, I have to say the grey sweaters ... extract yourselves from the chaos that grows around the chute. So when my

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my ... been crammed full like my carry-on. In fact, I just returned from a trip ... all started when my friend Michelle said "you should come to Oregon

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... colloquial fruitiness of the phrase as soon as it reached my ears, resplendent ... reading my comparatively-dry prose: imagine someone saying it with a gangsta

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive ... take as electives no matter what my major turns out to be. I figured this

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009