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  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming projects, it's very often because it's a personal project, or I'm doing something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can't quite describe. i feel like i've been in LA forever, but i also feel like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker ... neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and ... nights lying awake, with no one to hug before going to bed— I don't want

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting ... In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation ... really, I swear I listen to the things my professors are telling me. Yup

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here ... experiences I’ve traveled 3 times over IAP, and 2 times over the summer ... time as an intern! I will have done GTL-Korea twice, GTL-Armenia once

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• 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 ... everything... don't ask"]boil it.[/annotation] I'm not confident that I knew ... spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  By Fatima '25, one of my roommates!   i have been away from ... of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for weeks. before coming here, when someone would ask if i’d miss home, i

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  It's been a little while since I've blogged, which is partially because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... blurs all the lines. The semester is almost over. That means I'm almost

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a host of other things i’m anxious about, many of which aren’t even my own

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember doing a couple of anxious dances and taking a few deep breaths before I opened the webpage which told me whether or not I was accepted. You would

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... morning, I woke up at 10:00 am. I changed clothes, and brushed my teeth, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  therapist asked me about when I get depressive episodes. And I said that I got them after I'd come home from class, or after a meeting, when I'd come ... that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023