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• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  myself to achieve over the course of college, and if you've been keeping up ...  very long time but probably won't end up feeling that way. Besides, I do things ... hope to set up a little recording studio in my room and finally try my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to ... despair, of giving up in just about every facet of life. College has been a ... . I had grown up in a mostly white suburb, attended a mostly white high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  morning, however, when I woke up at 9:29am for the last conference tennis ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep, even though I had just woken up. The last three weeks have been hard

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  almost feel its venom building up like Voldemort’s, just before he ... plot I type up doesn’t feel like a world I’m creating. It feels like one ... plot-convenient things (snerk), I knew I couldn’t keep it up for long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  problems on the test. I had to step it up and give it my all in order to pass ... I covered up the test and worked on a blank sheet of paper. In high ... , I struggle and search for the answer, using up all of the time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  , signed up for every activity ever, and enjoyed rushing around from one ... ), and the freedom to randomly call up a friend to chat, without worrying ... didn't pick up. I panicked, and, with increasing nausea, realized that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  " edition)! Michigan Sunday, September 7, 2008 9:00am. I wake up, and go ... :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... a bit. 12:15pm. I meet up with a friend for lunch at Cosi, one of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing will ever feel as far as that walk [annotation note="Looking it up now ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  things were coming up. It was so exciting—MIT things!! They were already ... hobbies?? As hard as I tried to think, I couldn’t come up with anything ... not touch it for seven years. I thought about picking knitting back up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  woke up after we stopped by a small coffee shop. Rhode Island has a ... the extended weekend! I slept for most of the drive up to Maine, but we ... marshmallow roasting stick into the ground I gave up rather quickly but some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  pieces of problems to finish up on Friday morning. I wake up, make coffee ... cookies or brownies or mini muffins – whatever the baking chairs had come up ... Fridays, I spend a while at skooks, soaking up the sun, talking to people as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  and gave me strong female and nonbinary role models I still look up to ... everything MIT. I miss Evelyn, an incredibly hardworking soul that put up with ... frosh, taking us out for ice cream or staying up until 3 in the morning to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... grade because I very distinctly running up the road near my house to the ... year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed ... associate with growing up in New England. There's excellent coffee, beautiful ... Boston, there's no wonder in it anymore. I grew up near by, and the city

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  -cool things they're doing up there. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="450 ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The ... dome (once you've hauled yourself up the extremely cold metal ladder

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  .[/annotation] Attempt a Long Distance Relationship. Break up with your partner from back ... manufacturers and software cultists. Wake up at exactly 7:55 am to mentally and ... /Start a company. Think about starting/Start up. Think about dropping

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  numbered stickers for each person they shot, going from 00001 and counting up ... residents put up: Seven thousand. Eight thousand. In fact, the last number ... the queueing system. The entire thing is a single queue up until step 5

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  classes here do not teach formulas, but rather teach concepts and open up ... can no longer go to bed earlier than 1am, and waking up at 7am seems ... —when I visit, I realize that I’ll never catch up with the latest news

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... time to build up enough courage to send important emails. I just feel ... application just because I was scared of screwing up the interview. I didn

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... MIT 2017 was the perfect time to let loose and code up my first blockchain ... . Saturday, September 16th. I woke up early in the morning and waited three

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017