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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  easier. A complicated testbench that would’ve taken me hours to set up ... statistics) write up super elegant proofs like this: I write up horrible ... class was still a pretty good decision. I can keep up with the content

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  ?", which was a question quickly followed up by: "wait,,,, what do ... . So ending up in my first ever college class and asking the same ... directions: up/down, left/right, and forward/back. Alternatively, you can look

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  2023 to sneak up so quickly, and I opened my planner last Wednesday to ... explore a new, but related, field. I ended up choosing a lab in the ... always picked it up briefly only to drop it later on. My goal is to learn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual ... hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim ... pass, please consider just signing up for a swim class. Not only do you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  booked up. Every time I called, emailed, or applied to a program, I was met ... . And, luckily, I had savings that I could pull from, which I built up by ... ="87898" /] Over the course of a couple of weeks, Kano and I set up a series of video

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... . On campus, furry animals like squirrels and bunnies climb up the trees ... ="225"] Picture taken: 08/31/2022[/caption] Growing up, I had no pets

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  : up/down, left/right, and forwards/back. The number of these directions ... metaphor will come through but this is the set up. When I was at my most ... . When I brought this up with my friend, he said (understandably) "what the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  responsibilities. Unsurprisingly, this ended up being a bad idea. I finished out ... care right is an excellent gift to myself, whether that is waking up ... got to the bus stop and looked up a bus schedule to see that the next

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... semester had even started. Last fall, I overcommitted myself by signing up ... , which I feel does not really match up with a person's image of a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  city is so hyped up. The reasons other people seemed to have for loving ... long finished, setting up a folding table in the tiny green space in front of their walk-ups and playing music together. People say New York is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  meche and a fantasy writer, seemed like a perfect thing to pick up. So I ... ’re certified in the IAP class, you can show up for open forge whenever you like ... and effectively while it’s hot. Also, showing up in cotton shirts

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , Tucson drives, and Boston, among other things, rides the metro. I grew up ... riskier, because an opportunist bike thief could easily drive up in a [annotation note = "not that such things seem to exist in Copenhagen"]big pick-up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  into a pretty turbulent time, then April and May bringing the usual ramp-up ... more. And because I was finding it difficult to start up again, here's a ... 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and am planning on picking up a bunch of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... ENT clinic to set up an appointment. It took fifteen minutes to relay ... depressive symptoms haven't come up for months now, I said. I'm genuinely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  just calling up my grandparents and telling them how much I love them. A ... my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my ... projects, comforted me when I cried, put up with all my temper tantrums. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... problems — but in the end, we did end up solving many of them. I can ... ). But that’s fine — I can just look up the relevant theorems when I need

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  memory has been broken, and it's up to us to piece it together from the ... 've probably picked up that a big part of what people love about MIT is the ... mess up one part or another. But it's not really tennis, itself, that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  bit of a stretch, because I’m still catching up on the lectures for 8 ... quickly gave up on the ASE’s, figuring I would be better off just taking the classes on [annotation note="my year is allowed take up to 4 classes of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording ... every designer knows, it’s not a rebranding if you don’t mock it up on a ... . Though we ended up going in a different direction, my earliest plans for

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  straight up wouldn't be allowed back,[/annotation], etc etc. So much stuff was going on in this time that I straight up don't remember because it ... past few months that have mostly not ended up happening. And that does in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020