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Blog / Challenges
New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done
With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to ... challenge myself with: Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge/Boston area Learn the Ukulele with my roommate Learn to play my brother -
Blog / Classes
2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit
Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to ... . Let’s start with my team: the Red Team. Somehow fate took all the ... lucky with how it worked out for me. We had just 12 weeks to go from -
Blog / Community Projects
dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor
along with the other top ten scorers."]3rd overall,[/annotation] winning a ... frequency with which all other students chose those integers. Each player will ... integers with the greatest values (which you do know) and the lowest -
Blog / Athletics
90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world
excited to share with you all! This post will be split into 2 parts because ... say with conviction that I am who I am today because of those ... humbling and strengthening experience and I left there with such strong bonds -
Blog / Extracurriculars
[Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team
summer before coming to MIT. The only experience I had was playing with those small foam rockets with little plastic accordion pumps. Oh, and I ... subteams. Here’s a rundown accompanied by the sounds I associate with each -
Blog / Blog Projects
[joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28
climate enjoyers). there are also very lovely clear days with [annotation note="and i must clarify with the pain in my heart that i now also ... independent college students who tAke AgEnCy with our lives, we decided to -
Blog / Challenges
the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships
/ electric guitar instrumentation) with my favorite parts of ambient music ... barely breathe when you're with 'em? You meet, and neither one of you ... this post focuses on the question of “how do you grapple with the fact -
Blog / Classes
The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up
completely transparent with everyone about my MIT experience so far. About two ... something was wrong with me, and I felt guilty because she thought I was sad ... home with a mom and grandparents who loved me. I started to plan to leave -
Blog / Miscellaneous
In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal
could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often ... with the other decor my parents got. I didn’t need anything else -
Blog / About Decisions
What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside
descriptions of the food and drinks you make with your families around cultural ... morning with a coffee! After that, I'm pretty much snacking on hi-chew for ... during reading breaks. As such, I end up with copious amounts of butter -
Blog / Advice
tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts
to blog about. Pi or tau? Pi. (If it's okay with the other person ... person I got into a relationship with at MIT is now my boyfriend :) We ... and find people to hang out with, or watch something on Netflix with my -
Blog / Academics & Research
2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast
with them. Who knows where we'll end up in the next few years. This week ... out time to have dinner with my 8.01 TEAL group in Central Square, read for the first time since the semester started, coffee and lunch with -
Blog / Admissions
Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events
Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next ... !!! For the past week, our inboxes have been filled with CPW reminders and requests to help with events. We got our prefrosh hosting assignments, and -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17
societal and social in nature. Therefore, we must address these problems with ... communicate with each other, designing how we involve ourselves or get others ... Students’ Union’s official approach was solidarity. With the help of my BSU -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT
avail: A post about Family Weekend, with pictures and videos A long ... , about the joint improv/a cappella event the Asymptones did with Roadkill ... eating or hanging out with friends. Having parents visit gave me an -
Blog / How to Human
The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.
, with a pencil and markers and tape and scissors - it was a masterpiece. I ... would have sat near the front, with her parents, excited but absolutely ... who I could get in touch with to make this happen. He had no information -
Blog / Personal Travel
A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.
influence on cultural taste. It's no surprise then that anyone with a computer ... and politely intoned, “Reservation?” Jess and I were seated with ... lime soda, and I pretended to converse with her while creepily scouring