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  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  gotten stung by a bee. "I just didn't own a phone for a couple of years" - Apparently my professor has an aversion to technology and just didn't find a phone useful or necessary so he didn't see the need to own one "I got

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  's when I'm most productive," high school me would've told you. That wasn't ... after coming to MIT, I was like, "Oh my god, I can't go on like this ... yourself, though. You have to do things you don't like if you want to go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  was actually incredible. I hadn't worked out in more than a year ... workouts at ungodly hours and I couldn't be happier about it. Occasionally ... blasting music on weekends and we don't have to feel bad about doing the same

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  classes, how to manage the ridiculously hard one so that I don’t skimp on ... missing little things -- I can’t borrow pens from the person next to me ... alter abruptly. But I don’t have much evidence to substantiate this, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  both on my own and with others, and don't have anxieties about not making ... to join them even though it seemed like a pretty bad idea. but i don't ... place to work. i both miss and don't miss having to walk places. i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  I'm excited about the fall! Since sophomores aren't on campus, I won't ... hip hop dance team, Mocha Moves. Things are weird since, well, we don't ... semester was a bit rough on our team since we didn't get the revenue we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ... in on her with this sort of cock-eyed, confused look.   She didn’t ... people don’t like.”   “I’m queer and I cry and I hold on too tight

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  tHeSe UnPreCeDenTeD tImEs. Nevertheless, I have hipster cred ... exaggerating. Maybe it's OK if it doesn't rise? After all, they also say there ... progress, I had to face it: my baby boy wasn't special and proving all those

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  ...i didn't bring my bike down from my house in New Hampshire the whole year ... -3 minutes by bike. crazy! all those times during the school year when i wouldn't ... Trader Joe's when i needed groceries, seem ridiculous now. okay, so we don't

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... kilometers south of Valenzuela. Which doesn’t sound far, but consider that the ... excess. Every single second walking was a new experience. I didn’t know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a host of other things i’m anxious about, many of which aren’t even my own ... drained after the midterm last week and how i didn’t study nearly enough for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  and won't be for a while. I did not submit any kind of portfolio, but I ... was still an option in Fall 2017. I say luckily because I don't know ... haven't gotten to that yet"]visual space[/annotation] through the medium

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything ... mantra for me. Don’t be fooled, accepting that all was well and would

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s ... didn't settle well with me. Fast forward two years, and I'm experiencing ... ." I'm not sure if this is a result of simply M A T U R I N G or spending

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  At this point, others have claimed the organ before you. Don't lose hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don't ... to be strong. Coordinate! Don't wait until the morning of to put

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  don’t say them at all. Impulse purchases = a bulging closet but no ... emergencies and flashlight needs. Don’t wait for things to be taken away to be ... at stuff and that’s alright. My inability to draw or do a pset doesn’t

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

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

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... marketing/will take to market soon. Neato. The convention isn't necessarily ... (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  to not spend their money. I definitely didn't, even when I really ... would tell myself, "I don't spend that much" As the month started to end ... other month. But, "I don't spend that much". I kept thinking that until

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  literally moved my whole life to Boston T H E  R O U T E  H O M E Before ... mom on my day or finish up a HASS reading. so foreign ah R E S T A U R A N T S Being off the meal plan has forced me to venture further into

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don’t need to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress! What is it? The MIT ... won’t have any grades before February 15th! Even if you have no new

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017