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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  , but many of my upperclassman friends assured me that I would learn a ... brings many occasions to mind - my friend brushing and untangling my hair ... myself, another friend teaching me C++ for hours on end before my Play

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  seriousness here are some messages I panic sent to my friends in the first ten ... I have very smart friends in my classes and I'm scared of looking ... as probably the least intelligent in my friend group and this has left

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  my friend to live together on the farm. On July 6, MIT released ... I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  staying in Michigan for another summer. I’ve missed MIT and all my friends ... my resume to half the booths I walked past because I may have gone a ... enthralled. Then, as I was about to head back to my dorm and call it a day, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... recommend you loft your bed, and loft it high. My fear of heights—at least, the height of a loft—evaporated within hours. When I moved my head, my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here ... robotics research internship in the UK :)   433 units taken Over my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  purpose! When I was revising my friends’ essays, I constantly asked, “Why is ... During my college application season, the adults around me (in ... didn’t help me at all when I was actually writing my essays. If you are

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  .670. Other than that, I play Pokemon scarlet, cook yummy food with my ... internship and have promised a friend to contribute on a project. Eldar U. ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  New York, and I hate living alone. My friends have already heard me ... (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs ... Swift, with which I have been annoying my family for almost a decade now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  tumblr, which is ramble about my thoughts and feelings until I’m done ... ’m officially a junior (scary!) I figure I've earned some confidence in my ... proper nouns). I also spent two weeks hangin out and visiting my family

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  the 3rd floor. But, oh well, it’s fine, because all of my friends in the ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... expected them to. Have a few anecdotes!! Expectation: I start using my dorm

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  me happy, even though it makes my schedule a bit claustrophobic. But ... heard in my life. [caption id="attachment_103438" align="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  guessed it, digital art"]DAAMIT[/annotation] and online art friends. My ... with the various music and arts clubs around campus before my first day ... part of myself that has always been a defining part of my life. I was

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  poem each week.  At the end of July, inspired by my friend Sophia W ... last day or so in Copenhagen I spent with my friends, not writing ... little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  walk as fast as I can, my feet barely grazing every second stair. The ... they run. Other times, they are playing music aloud. Those are my ... , knowing that I will have to request the assistance of my roommate to finish

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  classes weren’t as difficult or rigorous as those of my friends’, I was able ... enjoy it as well! ________________________ Hi, guys! My name is Haley ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  book about the Syrian conflict, text my friend Nick, start getting ... . My sleep schedule has been all over the place lately after staying relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my neighbor, take walks in the shaded walkways behind my house, or build oddly shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I ... , on Thursday, my first day off, I was faced with the conundrum -- or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  ’ve sat on a Zoom call at 7 pm (eastern, 2 am local!) with friends from my ... my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the ... office hours, I can look out my window and be reminded of the fact that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020