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• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... some level of soreness. So I haven’t gone back yet, but maybe I will ... happens rapidly and you don’t have a blow-by-blow, you just know you tried

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  even a third of these events? ain't no way [caption id="attachment_74110 ... compare, which wasn't the best move since it's best to go to the events you ... 's overwhelming, so don't try to optimize, just do what you can. running back and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  , honor me.   Do you remember in spring how your body wasn’t your ... desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... ; I feel like I have not run in days like I haven’t slept I feel like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I ... friend let me borrow one of their chargers, which didn't really work ... again. And yes, it was the charger, because it couldn't charge my friend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  -19 restricted MIT campus. To clarify, I don't actually need to live on ... 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

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  control over their organization and also don't have any pictures of them ... were chicken scratch. Oop So...if you're like me and can't see yourself ... school that I didn't take advantage of its task categorization, as you can

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know ... ). the parties were mediocre...we weren't able to dance on the overcrowded ... difficult to remember, but i'm the type of person who can't not prepare for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  academic opportunities for students in each school and because if it weren't ... of those students was Denisse. To be honest, I don't remember much ... ..."]the best MIT-student impersonator I know[/annotation] – I don't think I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  didn't leave my house except to go to school or quiz bowl matches ... characters random backstories that aren't related to their cultural identity in ... last few paragraphs of the essay. Disclaimer: I didn't really care about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  truth in the matter was that I didn't really hate compsci, I just found it difficult. And to me, difficulty was something that I shouldn't pursue. I ... of these things?" I remember I had told him "I don't know, I just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  ". I had written this list freshman spring, when I REALLY didn't have ... as 60 units a semester, but still haven't really had much time. So when ... reality is that I still don't physically have enough time to do all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  follow. my partner is lead, but so far, i can hold my own; he doesn’t need ... ’s on the two beat, and i haven’t moved, and i take two quick steps back ... so. we talk about the new policy, but almost as if it wasn’t entirely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  and other meals every day, but I didn’t know how much of what I was ... this post would help. As a disclaimer, this also isn't representative of people who aren’t on meal plans. One of my friends cooks spectacular dishes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  simultaneously did and didn’t alter my family dynamic. Let’s start at the ... plan in retrospect, but in the moment, I remember how I didn’t know what ... away from them. It was like running on a treadmill. I wasn’t getting

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ...*shrug emoji*. I also wasn’t really motivated for the best reasons, I think the ... -up plan. But I really shouldn’t have been so concerned (there’s still enough perfectly good jobs in mechanical engineering everyone, even if they don’t

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my ... , that I wasn’t so seriously ill that I was hospitalized, which has ... awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  needed (I haven't been feeling well), and there was a really long line. So ... many weeks ago, and he said that I should get a patch test, or a T.R.U.E.® test. The thing about this test is that it takes four days, and you can't

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  public place in broad daylight. There were people around. I won’t go into details because I don’t feel like it. In essence, the situation did not play ... myself. That wouldn’t have happened if I’d been smarter, I thought, if I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I ... concentration (Philosophy, which could easily become a minor with some work). Don't ... I had my heart set on. There isn't quite an experience that could ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  eyes, and I couldn’t think. My heart was pounding, and I felt slightly ... Emergency Department room. Curtains don’t separate it from the countless other ... gone straight to college. Therefore, the question wasn’t really what I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011