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• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  things, I like making my own solutions. This past semester, several friends ... Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... year was already familiar with my shenanigans, just sighed and said

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... time, the experience really disrupted my self-confidence. My overwhelming ... felt like I was at an academic disadvantage due to my background, the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... I often told my college roommate, who was from Adelaide: nice try. As a cosmopolitan, sophisticated friend of the world, I welcome their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I remembered: "Moon milk!" You see, it was my first time caving (what? What did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  by Fatema’s older brother Sayeed, also an MIT alum"]my friend Fatema ... her head"]one of my good friends is a TA for 3.010[/annotation] – the ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  was so cool but so hard. When my friends heard I was taking this class ... , Michael Sipser, is amazing. (My friend, Robert C. '23, once interviewed him ... have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  [/caption] But sometimes, I also look at my friends who are physicists or ... evacuated my brain. Every question I missed in Protobowling with Paolo was a ... , I had a conversation with a mutual friend of both Paolo and I that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  might get pulled into my friend's startup for a bit, so I really don ... things to blog about. But, since it's my last semester as an undergrad, and ... "] yes, my friday is completely empty. please clap[/caption] CMS.701

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  share with my friend. I haven't posted any yet, but I did record a bunch ... stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep ... hard to continually motivate myself to finish my outstanding psets and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the ... , and age of each apple. Not particularly interested in perfecting my apple picking skills, I stuck with my own improvised method. I call it the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  systems). Sophomore spring, my friend and J-Lab partner Eric '14 and I ... Club One of my friends from my summer research program goes to BU, and ... ! - FYI, the line "my academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  weekends plus 6 vacation days. So, between my other MIT friends here and I ... why my site is advertised as sam.mitblogs.com and yet consists pretty ... reason. David, my freshman year roommate, was a Mexican who went to school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  find some of my friends upstairs, changed into more cold ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... [annotation note="my floor/living community"]B2[/annotation]’s notably tropical

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my ... with my left hand and I'm really proud of it MIT Coop please reach out to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it ... How I got all 5s on my AP exams without even trying What question ... spending Halloween? sitting in front of my laptop panicking over which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  It is my long-term quest to visit as many ramen shops around Boston ... notice because someone flaked  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Me and a few other friends ... :D silly ski lift pic (pc: matt f. '20) On President's Day, my parents

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  My major may be materials science & engineering, but my heart and mind also find themselves wandering over to writing. Writing is my minor ... on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  of my friends are plugging their ways towards their PhDs, have crazy ... ranks in Waze), I'm doing pretty well! I summarized my life after school in my last blog post so I'll just do some quick updates this time

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  bad idea. But my friend, you would be very wrong. Although I ended up ... at MIT. My weekend was unfortunately engulfed by other plans (one of which I'll blog about soon!) but I did manage to make my way over to East

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012