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• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had brewed jasmine tea at the [annotation note="My very cool independent living ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  ...[/caption] “Come on, dude, just try some. All the smart kids are reading it ... that as soon as my eyes opened and fell upon the words “Columba livia ... nonfiction book, doesn’t get you hooked as the others do – that it doesn’t tell

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... the part i have yet to finish, and as a result i am usually discontent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  focus on the class because you feel BURNOUT. you think about how you somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... freshman year. you feel SURPRISE upon trying the food and realizing that it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  part of why I chose my company this summer was because it paid the highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... -impact field. Artificial intelligence may help build the world I want to live

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of ... immensely this spring. More so than past semesters, not only because of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note="The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  summer season 3."]Season 3[/annotation] house in Virginia to the Season 4 house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2 ... trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ... that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read the books for me and just tell me the most important/interesting bits

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  water on my laptop. it died instantly; the technicians at the [annotation ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while ... some of the leading scientists, theorists and practitioners who are ... towards gender and racial equity in cities. Along the way, we will reflect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  the same roof Secrets were whispered Whatever happens to us Wherever you ... subsidized. For me, the big reason I wanted to go to PUMAC was to meet a bunch ... groups. Our group has twelve or so people, the other has eight-ish. After a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the ... to be honest: The reading journals were difficult for me because they

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... the hard way that proving you're right rarely ever proves anything to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  where companies set up booths to display the latest gadgets they are marketing/will take to market soon. Neato. The convention isn't necessarily open to the public (I think you actually need business credentials or

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  quotes from the lovely captain of the lightweight women’s crew team, Sharon. I’ve compiled the corniest collection of these quotes into power monologues that you can tell yourself the next time every bone and neuron in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  Wisconsin, and the other, Abby, is from San Diego. Last week I get home from ... ? (The answer is yes; we do need it). I own some jeans and one or two warm ... woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... doesn't really count. Wednesday marked a year since the death of an MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015