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• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  ’s still a surprise. [/visually_hidden] It’s strange to me when I wake up ... next to me writing up a pset.  I’ve always told my friends that my ... together, recapping our days, in the New House bathroom. She would wake me up

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up ... wrapped up, she mentioned the left-right confusion as probably the most ... . But I was 17, and I was just quirky, and one day I’d Grow Up and do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  . Tenors are always in short supply, so I sign up. It’s a pretty good gig; I get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some ... buildings. Life is looking up. The best part about summer is, of course, that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up ... working on his set-up: a three camera whiteboard view with velcro to sticky them down, and fancy wipes and spray to clean up the boards efficiently

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  wrapping up my internship just last week, I've found myself left with nothing ... me. When I was growing up, I never watched cartoons out of fear that I ... perfect game for them because the humor is right up their alley and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  , an event that gets filled almost immediately after sign-ups open. It is ... dressing up as a stack of post-it notes (complete with a marker that people ... someone who grew up in a foreign country and is aware of the differences in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  people to wake up filled the stalls, and from them, a queue emerged. We ... main buildings that made up our school. One end of the hall had a large ... sold in packets at five times the price. We only put up feeble complaints

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  admissions office, and they needed to be brought up to speed about student life ... moved to England when I was nine and a half, where I picked up an American ... up to every individual on that campus, and maybe that made me think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  leading up to my flight to London were hectic. I was graduating, so along ... over. Then, I had to pack up everything that was left in my room, and I ... was asleep for the first half of it. But when I woke up, the English

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of ... up to—and what’s still ahead! WebinarsSTARS@MIT hosts several webinars

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  flips the story on its head in a totally unexpected, fucked-up manner. But ... which I don’t think about other people at all. Though I often end up ... dialogue as Into the Woods. I fucked up more than once. So although I loved

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  -worsening plane anxiety. We were going to go down as soon as we went up, I was sure ... , drawing floorplans, taking photographs, writing scripts, setting up ... picked up begrudgingly in 2020 when the gyms and world closed down, is now

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  Wicked soundtrack with my THX speakers cranked up to MAX bass. I am AMPED ... ’t living up to the sacrifices they had made. “Breathe” captures that exact ... , something profoundly human. In that shared moment, we all show up, gathering

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... out a DVD and starts up “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” on DVD. I had ... never gives up. His ragtag group of misfit friends embark on everyday

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  speed for the entire 25 minutes i should end up with like a 3750 word blog ... !!!"]assuming no fatigue or pausing to think[/annotation] i would end up with 3750 ... 'm not so sure why i beat myself up about this before i even start writing

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  , 2020, just two days after I had packed up my dorm room and left campus ... Delivery seemed less and less likely. MIT ended up only inviting seniors (the ... . My rings arrived in the mail on June 1, 2022. I opened up the package

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me, this slow crescendo of ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... , that there were simply crises constantly sprouting up around me. One

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  for the first time, because you know questions will come up over and ... hours. get to know the teams that show up to OH every day. convince the ... the sponsor lecturers happen to be your friends and catch up with them

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  toilet seat up. They'll never wash their dishes. They'll leave the door ...  respectfully and as soon as possible so you don't build up resent and anger towards ... doesn't clean up after themselves. Negative feelings and isolation are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  the set-up of a physics problem to me, and I remember being awed by her ... ” and immediately drew it up on a whiteboard. He pushed me toward the ... nearly all of them because I was too busy. I wound up only going to the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021