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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  malalapitan; here I am, drenched from the rain, nowhere to find shade, no one to approach. One of my favorite songs is Cueshé's "Ulan", which is, of course, a ... one sings about being in the rain with someone else, because rain is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever ... myself in one paragraph? Wow. The title of this blog is really not ... crossroads between classes that are nearly identical, except one is much harder

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... during our short, two-week trip in the winter (you simply can’t miss one ... this story, rather than any other one. This story is about Muti. Muti

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... store in Harvard Square that specializes in bees (one of our favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... unique opportunities that no one else will ever have - don't waste them

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DO FOR YOU? But this entry was about problem sets at one point ... terms ago, even though I only had three problem set classes, one of those had problem sets that were routinely 20 or more pages long. One time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  on this. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - This is one of those books ... wouldn't have been able to build it. No one could if they put themselves ... overhead. All the different bells of the city chimed, once each, this one

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... and revolutionary one. The field of visual storytelling is really broad ... one on the art end of the visual storytelling production pipeline. But

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  's true that one person can bring about big change, but then imagine the ... over the MIT community coming together for one reason: to tell you that ... moment. Because when it comes down to it, this is just one decision. Don

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... conquered that one. No one, not even MIT, can take away the accomplishments ... were accepted. The rest, like me and one of my good friends, were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... ! (this one fulfills #68 as well =p). 15. Drink bubble tea - the week ... !!! this is one of the most awesome perks about our student ID - I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are ... for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were ... . Okay, one more time. Hello. I’m Twenty-One-Year-Old Ana. Right now, I

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  three I didn't know, one never actually lived on floorpi. They transferred ... names. One didn't live in the room, but gave me the name Marisa B. '00 ... did learn a few things about floorpi along the way. Here's one thing I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every ... breakup, pacing in the parking lot of one of the endless plazas that make up ... shifts, and one day a jar of alfredo sauce cracked on the assembly line and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  gender-exclusive ones.) [1] Twenty-two You might be wondering, why 22? All ... symbols in the house were squids and [annotation note="Purple is one of Tau ... . I was given one with a squid made from fractals! There were 33 other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  that I could have one fun year with people I really vibe with before ... housing rates to Tier 1 ones. While it's certainly the case that we'd be ... semester. In light of this, there were a number of scenarios to consider: one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020