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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  is a super SUPER bad decision. when you're a freshman, you don't ... like children to me. thanks to COVID, I feel like I don't have enough ... year and am hanging out with different groups of people every day. I don't

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  girls who hate themselves and wish to be adjacent to whiteness.  You don’t need to prove anything to me, I always want to reply but don’t. Because ... flushed and I’m smiling the way people do when they don’t bother to hide

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and thoughtfully, but it still feels like I don't enough to solve ... computational classes here, which is maybe why I feel this way. I don't feel ... ask complicated, high-level questions. But I don't feel like that person

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East ... to me, and I don't want to forget about them. Last on-campus class: 6 ... , and that's a huge chunk of the four that I was promised coming in. I don't

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  you have to actively stand around and make sure you don’t burn your food ... will only eat them if I don't notice it. It's embarrassing, and I ... that into consideration. I don’t want to say for certain that everything

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  also have been reading books like Cracking The PM Interview since I don't ... , one week later, with a preference for my Ubuntu boot.) And, I don't ... . Honestly, I don't know if I'll get to these goals in time, since I know that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  game... Connoisseur - I don't have a demo video of this one, but ... that I was able to find that out, even if I don't have letter grades to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don't ... "sadness meal" dinners (what I call it when you need to eat, but you don't ... spotify discover playlist, and although I don't actually listen to the song

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  this time spent living at home to do the things i don't have the time to ... or exercise or not eat sugar? i really don't know...   [caption ... favorite choreographers are offering in quarantine. i don't enjoy classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  , and although I'll [annotation note = "I really don't know how the COVID ... years—namely, windows that don't scream whenever it gets even the ... id="attachment_51552" align="alignnone" width="547"] don't stress: just

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  COIN — i don't have any particular memories tied to this; it's just a ... went to find [annotation note = "if you don't have mirrors, windows at ... stafe, make the most of your quarantine, and don't forget to always sing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  don’t feel like I’m going to burn out. I don’t feel like I’m going to ... sense, because I don’t know which of my commitments I would drop if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  said, “Don’t worry, son. I was talking to my sister and she said the ... the other end said, “We thought you were great, but I don’t feel ... are going with a different candidate.” I don’t remember what was said

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  don't have any pictures of my breakfast this morning, but trust me, it ... has been strongly influenced by my dad, so if you don't like this ... ;=50% of it, so maybe don't take it up with him."] Challah. If you're an

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... not having a prom date. Ultimately, though, I took the risk, and I don't ... life; don't squander it by writing what you think someone else might want

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  dismantling freshmen’s assumptions that I have my life figured out. (I don’t. Honestly, most sophomores and, dare I say, upperclassmen probably don’t ... that I don’t have to figure every part of my life instantly.      My

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  i outlined the events i wanted to attend, i don’t regret any of the ... there is to experience in this interval where academics don’t really ... like i don’t have control over academics (and being destroyed by 8

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly ... end up waiting for twenty minutes to see the doctor- I don’t mind. I ... -minute walk to my friend’s dorm, and since the weather is wonderful, I don’t

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  committee-based process, those students don't get in). Additionally, there is ... don't view my job as denying people - I view my job as advocating for ... I love being mean and denying people, but because I don't want any of

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  MIT students have to live in a dorm for all four years (they don't), or ... place full of "unknown unknowns" -- things you don't even know that you don't know. it's also full of people who really care about those things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018