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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a ... to Tennessee. I’d put it right on a farm surrounded by cows, just like ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a ... someone key me in on a trick to couple hundred haikus per second? i think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  tripping over a new on-campus job opportunity and falling on your face. And ... a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... example to all and lived a beautiful, full life. These are some snippets from my last conversation with him, which I was so lucky to film about a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  stressful situations. 3) try something new on (or off) campus with a friend ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz is a Putzen. Two or more people who live on Putz are also Putzen ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student, which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  from 5 to 7 pm is spent out on a turf field. Nearly every Wednesday is a ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... essentially a rejection. To cope, I focused on all the positives of the schools ... support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  -wracking freedom of moving to a new city, the overwhelming rush of first love, the ... —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... childhood. While I still jam out to the top songs of the 1990s and 2000s on a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  things that way. It takes a whole new dimension of gut, though, to hold ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  finalized, I embarked on a sidequest to rig up the net in the center. It took ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  much. Stitching custom pieces was almost impossible to turn a profit on ... kinda takes away all your free time) and I'm venturing out on a new cross ... in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020