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• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise ... energy for itself. I suppose that perhaps this, too, is the cost of caring for people. I must care for myself too, and that is easy to forget when

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... you. But that last sentence is something I've been struggling with for ... 't realize exactly how unprepared I was for my classes. I knew MIT was hard. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two ... verbalizing protocols for a state exam. It took me almost a year of watching ... conversations, I’d suggest getting started before 8am. Your body is, for all

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  professor that I've had the pleasure of learning from for the past three ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... modern writings (which I got a lot of inspiration for). Ultimately, on all

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

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  8-Focus so for the majority of students who are doing 8-Flex ... begin on experiments with the level of detail you’re expected to for this ... time to give thoughtful and detailed explanations for all of the concepts

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  requirements for 6-3 and honestly a class I've been dreading for quite a while ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... Culture; I am extremely excited for this class. It's taught by Ed Schiappa

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... compensate for my sad brunch, some friends and I went to Punto Rojo – a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  have secured a room in the Institute for holding their rehearsals this ... architects as a studio for water-color sketching and life class, and as a ... , and for the next several decades—which marked MIT’s move from Boston to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18 ... Listener. I registered full time for all four, half convinced I would drop ... for first time teaching assistants in ESG(the Experimental Study Group

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like lists so much is that they are perfect for dumping all of your thoughts

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... had brought me a blanket from my room and some tea for the rest of the ... syndrome, for the whole world to see, while on a train to New York"]taking a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... 'm cataloguing them all for a blog post, but it's not ready yet; I want to collect ... down to this. I know what's best for me. I know that what's best for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  you are lucky ducks."]we all[/annotation]prepare to hunker down for ... before and preparation for things that will happen the day after. After ... , but it lets me call my parents from 10 to 11 before my house gathers for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  this class did not start out well for me as all I had from high school ... that scary mathematical jargon for the first time. The fact that I have ... being chose the best possible conditions for the world to exist as we know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  relaxation and down activity, I'm not entirely sure I’m ready for that). And ... -style hall that the idea for 8,726,400 SOS first sparked. Since then, seeing it ... satisfaction is. The answer I’ve found for myself has to do with intention. You

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your ... completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... 've been talking about this kind of redesign for the last few years and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the ... registering for normal MIT classes - you have a separate form that needs to be ... fellows); and of course there's the whole dressing up for class thing. (I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  to explain that they needed some maps for a puzzle. This sort of frantic searching for resources will be pretty common this weekend. Friday ... some of them for more information about the case. But the contacts won

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  for people who have decided to switch dorms. Final dorm assignments go ... don't want to not get lotteried into dorm X and set yourself up for ... 's really important that you end up in the best dorm for you and don't succumb

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006