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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... principal," my mom muttered under her breath. She turned to me. "You let me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  mostly miserable. I had already decided to apply to the Admissions Blogs at ... so I would often talk to her about her blogs, and see her post them. It was always an event. Our other roommate, Nora and I would race to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  children, causing his son zeus to hate him and eventually overthrow him ... a scenario, all the dogs quickly learned to jump over the hoop ... the control group, at which point they did not attempt to jump over the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  comes to Decisions, both yours and… y’know… not yours. See with this notion, to recap from my other post, comes the idea that you are who you ... . I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me ... learning to make human-like text, based on whatever prompt and parameters you ... idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 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 ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... , it was to have the title You Knew What MIT Would Be, and it was going

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  pass and started rifling through my emails. i thought, should i go to ... , from 11 am to noon. the other class i usually went to on thursdays, 6 ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

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

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for week-long vacations with my friends ever since. but, from March 18 to March 27th, i got to experience spreak in all its glory! it was absolutely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful of due to the inevitability of group conflict and breakup, and because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  blogger application, to finally take on this vlogging challenge. I will be vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time ... 'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... , and they too weren't able to finish their (pretty much fully completed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool noodle I shift my weight to dodge the blow... but then I’m on the ground. I try to stand, but the second I bend my left leg a horrible pain shoots

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  turning out to be really hectic. I’ve felt pretty overwhelmed lately. I’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to ... vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• 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 ... just talking about the blockchain. I wanted to actually code something ... extra hard drive space to others while still keeping everyone's files

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016