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• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  that a) applicants simply don’t understand what information we are ... something more concrete along the lines of "do this" or "don’t do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston.  I run by the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike ... an exorcist[/caption] (Don't stand upside-down for prolonged periods

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed ... yucky, as if the fluctuating brain-throbbing sensations don't make me want

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... intelligence. Why don’t you go for someone like ‘James’,” my brother Kyler once

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  extraordinarily dense interview. I didn’t get through all of it, and I don’t think I ... even a century later; I guess some things don’t change. Her sentences

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  really liked the I Did Something Bad, Look What You Made Me Do and Don’t ...   HELLO??? Favorite Songs Delicate, Don’t Blame Me, New Year’s Day ... find it easier to write sadder pieces but I don’t think I have ever done

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  ask you is: do you think these people are thriving? me: i don’t know. i don’t think they’re thriving, but i’m also not really sure what thriving ... of new math but not a lot, and i don’t think i became a better

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  -long void in my schedule or when I don’t have club badminton practice. But ... ="residence halls without dining halls that don't require you to have meal plans, i ... ."]cook-for-yourself dorm[/annotation] with no meal plan, I sure don’t do a whole lot of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  advice is to say you don't watch sports or say your favorite team is any ... . Maybe it does exist. I was just disappointed that I don't hear it often

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  opportunities like that in your email. honestly as a 6-7 (cs & bio) i don't ... I had about UROPs. Like, you don't actually have to be the most ... so I don't go every night—plus, the walk from EC is a little far—but I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  to remember to let yourself breathe and save time for yourself. You don't ... don't solely rely on their opinions as often times it's full of their ... it? I don't think I can cover all of this in one blogpost but I can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  to get a coffee and read a book in front of the Winter Palace. I don’t ... don't have to do the most, yet. For now, I can be content with just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  more honestly, probably won't get one because I don't have the time ... [annotation note="unfortunately I don't think I have the mental fortitude to do ... answer is that I don't really know. Maybe if I had enjoyed the climb more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  past five years now, and it’s finally settling in that I don’t even know ... laughter. I don’t know if I’ll find the same thing in my old neighborhood

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  fun to write, but I don't want it to come across as one of those "the ... February. I don't especially like any of these ideas and would prefer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  stressful week. Please don't freak out like me. Instead, you should: Get off ... gifts for loved ones. Don't be the kid rolling up on Christmas Day with a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  I don’t actually want that? like, maybe I should take a gap year. or ... assorted candy congrats! you don’t know what you want out of life. but who

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  that might fit. But all I can think about is the things that don’t, and ... don’t either leave things or take them with us. We do both. The

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  credit from being a varsity athlete, so I don’t technically need to take ... -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I ... don’t believe it, to be honest. Sidequest 5: Pull a cool hack

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019