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• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  nurse? No, she doesn't want to get near your blood, God knows what kind of ... " twin beds, a crucial factoid when buying sheets. Don't buy normal twin ... sleep on the top bunk. Unfortunately, the bunk bed designers weren't quite

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  saying that didn't feel like dramatic enough of an opening. I wanted it to sound like an old nursery rhyme or something, but I also didn't care that ... doesn't get more useful it might be an "Aiden goes to lecture when he

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  note="ice cream is so meh why wouldn't you eat a cookie instead ... passion about math or whatever. But you enjoy it, but who wouldn't? Things are easy for a long time, and you don't walk around telling everyone

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  couple of people grab lunch from Chipotle, we take the T to South Station ... entertainment on my laptop, but my battery was going to die and I realized I didn’t bring my charger with me. This didn’t turn out to be that bad, since

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

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  though that doesn't seem to already have been answered, though, I am ... don't recommend waiting until the last minute, though.) It is ... guarantee that we can consider your scores for EA; if you don't, I can'

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No Record, implying that it isn't reported on your transcript at all (for what ... pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  it is). It’s not as if I didn’t want to go to Stanford initially, but ... is not something anyone is comparable to! Don't make yourself feel that ... another day."]It was awful.[/annotation] I normally don't have interview

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don’t ... )! And don’t even get me started on other things like displays, memory, and ... by covalent bonds, which don’t allow electrons to move around easily

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... really liked the I Did Something Bad, Look What You Made Me Do and Don’t ...   HELLO??? Favorite Songs Delicate, Don’t Blame Me, New Year’s Day

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  , like art or writing, if they haven’t already been ingrained as habit. it ... pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven’t committed to a program yet, not that I’m unsure about the Ph.D. I don’t know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... , as i have done, as i can, as i shouldn't, etc."]“as you should ... transcripts, while Ds and Fs aren't shown at all."]PNR[/annotation] mindset is

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  not know. I haven’t played games for years"]build as much ... , and I’d learned recently that bandsaws, unlike scroll saws, don’t cut ... via solder wire. Solder doesn’t take to every type of metal the same way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... week. As an adult, I still don't quite have that kind of time, and ... recommend me a book, I can literally put it [annotation note="If you don't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  . Strangers offer to put you on their shoulders when you can’t see over the crowd. They push me out of mosh pits, and I wish they didn’t, but they ... deny them, they don’t actually assault you. I don’t know what it was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  wasn't the same house -- but the blue sky and the warm colors struck a ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t ... cringes, not the part of you that is cringe"]t-posing,[/annotation] the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  host parents and siblings weren't home. he was always cheerful ... an extent that I simply wasn't interpreting it correctly. I later ... grappled with the fact that I wasn't able to even speak to him over video

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  week to prepare and say our goodbyes, think about all the times you don’t ... , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  often felt like I wasn't understanding why the equations I kept applying ... ; I can’t derive it from scratch right now." ]proved[/annotation] E = mc ... don’t understand how we figured it out in the first place. If Newton or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  setting. During the school year, I don't actually use much task management ... my valiant attempt to read all of [annotation note="and honestly, I can't ... achievable goal, even if it isn't that lofty, is a good way to keep progressing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  my new year's resolutions. Since I didn’t blog that much during the ... something that I now value very much even though I didn’t really consider it ... to school at BU, and I try to visit her at least once a semester. I don’t

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020