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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... , a few minutes from the dome"]Hayden Library[/annotation] or some other ... at once is a nightmare. i barely remember the weeks i spent finishing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  mom along. she got to spent a few days with my entire host family, which was an insane crossover. this was after I got into MIT, so I brought a ... me in 2017 and Nisha had given her a MIT tour, they were all very

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Angeles to Boston, returning a little later from my Thanksgiving break than ... old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Every place I went, everything felt a little bit off. I don't like being

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  With Parent's Weekend coming up, I thought I'd reflect a bit on the ... other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of Norwalk, California. It's a beautiful house with a big backyard featuring my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and flew across the country for California where I am currently lying on a ... personal space when they get a little too close. I have decided that I will

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  breakfast, nearly fell asleep in every lecture as a result, rushed from my ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next ... work done. I had a bunch of p-sets and exams to worry about, and this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  grandma's house when my parents asked a completely unreasonable question for a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say ... ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  . Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small ... wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two-hour flight, during which I met a matriculating Harvard Medical School student

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those ... dress up, wear robes, and have a formal three course dinner together ... 'm taking a psychology class to fill a HASS requirement and Cambridge students

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... someone who has a crush on you that you don't return their feelings. Useful

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the ... biennial was opening this year on March 20, just a few days before the start ... Wikipedia: The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion ... ticketing system was a mess: Olivia wasn't performing at a large arena, but rather a smaller, standing-room-only venue, and this was her only

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now ... team matches up with a person on the offensive team and is responsible

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  a few weeks ago i asked my friend what kinds of people i should date ... that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... was ever mine. for example, a rather common one is i will only say

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back ... across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday ... like a French ballade Constantly written, never finished.   I am from ... ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  Where have I been? I haven't blogged since February 3. A lot has ... Shuli answering questions about life at MIT. It was a surprisingly delightful experience. I decided a good first step to get back into actually

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS ... would never be a computer science major. I had taken AP Computer Science A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... specks, burying everything in dust. a phreatic eruption, we would learn ... happening. the hallways feel like they’ve expanded a little, now that they are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... these things in a ceramic, mushroom-shaped container (which we ... ! And our really awesome friend was in it, performing with a sword that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018