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• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... ."]Listener[/annotation] (which I ended up dropping pretty early on), working >1 jobs and ... at a pace faster than I could keep up with but the professor was clear

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  for your enjoyment. 6:30 AM I wake up at an ungodly early hour. Usually, I’ll get up around 8:30 – 9 AM, but today, I have some urgent tasks ... . I get up at 8:30, pack my [annotation note="three apricots and the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up ... , and I really enjoy just getting up on a Saturday morning and doing as ... 's coming up soon, which is writing a fully fleshed out interactive narrative

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  end up telling someone, my friend had replied, "Who do you think you are? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot ... of phony phone calls from people who had never hit me up before. A lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  this woman holding up three large medals and thought to myself "I want ... and pull it off. I started doing my research. I looked up the Goofy ... all the stars start glowing and lighting up. Have I mentioned

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ...  attack. It picked up on my bad procrastination habits too. I can't say I ... . Hooray open source! I ended up with a file that was a little under a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  the sun beating down your temples as you run up against it?  I've been ... going, and someday you wake up and look around and hopefully know where ... , because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up ... up cross country skiing with a coat over his formalwear, so I couldn ... , the two posted up in the business room with their eyes glued to their

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  state fitness tests (underweight; zero push-ups; zero squats; zero sit-ups ... ago when on weeknights I would make a lava cake and he would pull up ... competitions we mostly played Black Ops 2 in his living room and blew up MOSFETs

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• 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 / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the ... philosophy. And I won’t deny that progress can sometimes creep up on you. I am ... ’re surrounded by people that pick things up at lightning speed. I’ll turn my head

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 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 / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... possible. After attempting to wipe it up a bit, I quickly deposited it at the ... can say."]and suck.[/annotation] I popped up and came face-to-face with

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 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