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  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... that you haven’t filled out the binding form. I had already accepted that I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the ... .) I’ve never been very good at school. This feels strange to admit

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time, there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they have mandatory lectures at the same time, but if I push back class B to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  … Even though he placed first and I placed fifth and logically we both ... something completely different altogether. When I speak to Sanatan… I don ... the top 20 bodypainters, I could give you a fair imitation, given enough

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with ... the whole essence, [1] because I need to be a senior, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... light trickle growing into a noisy downpour. i remember high school summer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why ... ’s what i see every time i look at the world. everywhere i look, i see the ... free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just

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

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close. Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to fulfill all my Science GIR requirements! I'm honestly somewhat lukewarm to this class since it's a class I'm obligated to take rather than one I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... twinkle lights and I occasionally guilt myself into putting my phone down ... days that I am only just about halfway through. Life doesn’t even feel

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  i had SUCH a nice President’s Day weekend. a lot of it was consumed ... ,[/annotation] but as a whole, it was lovely. here’s what i did!   Friday: our ... . then, it was showtime! i was pretty nervous because 60+ hours of practice

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress ... is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  morning. I went to bed at around 1 am last night (or I guess this morning). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for ... subconsciously conscious. I managed to carry myself out of bed at around 8:30 am

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an ... . It was December 13th, 2014 6:15PM. I remember eyeing my box of yogurt ... the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It's been a while. I've had a busy last month: 0. I said ... , "I am not going to think about elephants while writing this post" before writing this post. Anyhoo, that reminded me that I finally got

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there to be more elation, more joy, and more optimism as I looked toward the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  BEHOLD! I MADE FOOD! GOOD FOOD! Remember when I set my IAP resolution to cook dinner every night? Well, I did it!* *Okay, I mostly did it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... around with computers, and circuits, and microchips (oh my!). Yeah, I ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  I have done exactly three things since winter holiday ennui sprouted ... keys obnoxiously expired while I was busy playing minesweeper* or something likewise pre-installed and useless. *I kid, because I have swept

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I ... hoping its selection somehow involved science, since I pipette things all ... science at all. I was crushed. (The feeling lasted about two seconds. Give

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008