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  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working ... in the future. That plus my involvement with MIT’s fall planning plus my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... walked around that day, seeing four-digit numbers float above my classmates

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... , but if I can finish all of them, I’ll consider myself decently on my way ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of ... misty background of my mental landscape. Knowing me, it really is one or ... beginning of the transformative conquering of my sole remaining fear, writing

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... more brutal fall semester than the one that hit my Junior fall. IHTFP ... deathly combination of classes to prepare for my semester abroad. The work

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... circuit boards are really cool and I'm learning tons about them from my UROP ... Laboratory and do Real Science with my Real Hands, and that's actually exactly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge.  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making ... way to prepare myself for eventually getting my EMT certification.  Anna

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of ... of Passau. But now I find myself alone with my thoughts, reminiscing

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; and confusingly just as much juggling. But one of my favorite parts of ... all my sensibilities, split my chin open during a match. Against my own ... on my clothes. Oops, so I ran off to find just where I'd sprung a leak

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... signed my name on so many mailing lists that I honestly forgot what I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while ... screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  Yup, it's true: CPW 2010 IS ALMOST HERE!!! My poor inbox is struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... , have them ready! I was lucky last year in that my host was someone I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  enthusiastic about my classes this semester than I was about my classes last ... found biology slightly more relevant to my existence than, say, gyroscopes ... .00 here at MIT, so maybe it'll eclipse my high school psych experience. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  around campus mid-afternoon today. I went by some of my favorite spots, the ... my head. As I was walking around today I thought about why I enjoy ... by Building 66 (where I spent much of my undergraduate life). I like

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  interesting to me. I mean, I want to spend my life designing corn shellers for ... me, and I really don't think that sending an addendum to my application ... that the paper was well outside my normal field of study. So while I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  . I had a hard time selecting my top preferences; I was torn between 24 ... .” *An aside: My classmates in senior year voted me most likely to lead a ... .02, but this conflicted with my chemistry lecture. As I mentioned before my

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  colds" or "the last time I was sick was 1918" or "MY leg would never fall off because my immune system is better than yours." Can you see where ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I arrived on Saturday from Florida, where I was spending time with my family

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008