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  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i’d talk about how the strongest ongoing theme is coping with contradictory convictions. how can we believe…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i’ve spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one conclusion: actually, i only recently discovered that i’ve been diagnosed with clinical depression since late december. here’s…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  A few weeks ago I did an interview with the Raising Problem Solvers podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title/framing of the episode, which was just…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  until this year, I’d never really experienced loss or old age firsthand. my relatives who have passed away did so before I was born, or when I was too young…

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

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  CW: Sexual Assault, Abusive Relationships, Suicidal Ideation, Non-Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary.)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to…

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  What is DTYD? Dance ‘Til You Drop is an annual party hosted by my living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on the Sunday of Patriot’s Day weekend.⁠19 the weekend of…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might’ve appeared had she made a different…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Let’s think about my future plans! since I can't be a baby beaver forever

  

  bad idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit’s “grind culture” or “questionable mental health”. mit is hard. some people say mit is only as hard…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I’ve been living off-campus in a house full of other MIT undergraduate women. We’re part of MIT’s FSILG (Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system.…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure what MIT…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research organization. i got involved with 0xparc because it’s…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe’s. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of stairs. The air that…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep, and i felt awful. my throat was sore, i simultaneously felt hot and cold, and…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed Barrett. I’ve always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid to really just dive into…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime during the spring term of their freshman year. I’m a fairly decisive person when it come to what I…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized that although I…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it, because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a cobblestone placed on…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022