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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  , but sometimes i don’t even know where my time goes. i feel like ... that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  took over my life, and I spent lots and lots of my time and energy ... wrong with this path; through my extracurricular involvement in high school, I learned a lot, both about my clubs' topics themselves (#Classics4

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  fourth midterm that I don't need the take the final. For my other Course 6 ... my write-up and cleaning up my code. At 20:55, I uploaded my work and ... my print statements. I quickly commented them out, re-uploaded my code

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ’d last been home. This past Thanksgiving break, as I turned into my ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that ... inordinate amount of time sitting at my desk. As a student studying computer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was ... -long excursion around the country. I carried with me, too, my New Year's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... all of my classes (which includes going to all the lectures, reading the ... impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  reflecting on my past semester... On the one hand, perhaps that's because I ... of you out there will have to be content with hearing about my fun-filled winter break and fantastic first week of IAP. Over my winter break, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a ... that were clear around me were the oceans - and, for a moment, my mind

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center ... much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  attempted to propel myself off his back, except that with my knees roughly ... to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point, gravity took over, I hit the ground on my back and the wind was knocked

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  when I found out I’d been selected. I thought “Wow, I can share my ... class this semester. Here’s a snapshot of my registration: 69 units is ... performance: I had too much on my plate. Because I took so many classes, I didn

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9:06 when I think to myself: "I'll just try putting in my username and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... I could find because I didn’t want to be aware of my corporeal form. I ... settled deeply into the cracks of my psyche. Everything just sort of… aches

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  're in? Coming back to Valenzuela, my hometown, feels especially painful, because my head is imposing this map that the territory does not follow ... mismatch from what you remember. Every time I've come back to my hometown I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

   I survived my first semester at MIT, and it was hella dope. I can ... living my life at such a break-neck speed that I haven’t really processed my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  This past week was probably the worst I've encountered at my time at ... I'm surprised it actually happened this late into my freshmen year. I ... comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  of itself, but preparing for that one exam--and finshing up my other assignments for my other 4 classes--was another beast entirely. I thought it might be more fun to show you my week in pictures (mostly taken from my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  artichokes. 2. I love my "Spanish family" in Madrid. 1. I love Madrid just because of the way it is. My Last Two Weeks in Spain, and Thoughts: Doing ... paso, you adjust to the lifestyle. I spent the eleven days between my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  recuperation from, my oral presentation on GFP for 10.28: Saturday: Scored free ... never fade. Sunday: After a long, long, long desk shift, I was greeted my ... wanted to drink something with a taste, I opened one of my like 50 cans of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... often than I should've for my math classes, I did not participate actively

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024