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  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  I've gotten a few questions lately about my activities -- why I do ... , a theatre/band/choir star in high school. I was the only person in my ... as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... . If you're emailing your EC, you may want a subject line that refers to ... you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  a bit vague, let me be perfectly clear: do not break the November Rule ... world. This is unsurprising for a field (again, stereotypically) devoted ... respective worlds, and this requires accepting a (perhaps incomplete) knowledge

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  them after I'd come home from class, or after a meeting, when I'd come back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  I live with three other people. We have a relatively small kitchen, but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all ... of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even ... (because there will never not be stress when you've poured your heart into a college application and you're waiting for a decision), I recommend you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... transcripts, photos from the Creative Photography Lab, a "write a poem with GPT-3" booth with a nice mechanical keyboard… [carousel image1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... at a company that provides excellent lunch, giving me recipe ... understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass ... ring — a design element that has persisted to the modern day. MIT ... a formal event called Ring Delivery. I've always viewed Ring Delivery

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... a place a great place, MIT checks off a lot of those boxes. With that said, a place being objectively great, doesn’t make it the best place for

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer ... over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was ... from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... so many compliments, especially because the color I got was a silver ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... gingerly begin packing my last box. Some pictures. A couple of 3D

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of friends and I made our way down to the Revere Beach (a short 15-20 minute

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  should make that a blog post!" So here it is, a lil post about how crazy 6 ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle ... 've done serious coding in a good while. At MIT, there's often an attitude

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... s are full of excitement and hope. As a senior blogger, I’ve gotten ... onsite interview at a healthcare software company (with travel, food, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  intimidatingly) as a “bomb cyclone” hit us yesterday with a foot of snow, and it was actually the warmest that it’s been outside in a week. This has become my standard outdoor attire: I realize I look a bit like I’m about

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it feels like i'm drowning. --- hand foot mouth disease (what a terrible name) took me down for a week or two. it's been going around, and ... - hands and feet for a few days felt like someone was jabbing a needle into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017