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  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the final round. I looked around the room, at the wood paneled walls ... , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... make us relax. We had no chance of winning, but when I glanced at my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this ... -black color at a time, ostensibly to show everyone I was hardcore but secretly ... future, the vision or meaning of which I hadn’t thought through at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes ... at MIT, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do after college, so ... Hawaii and coordinator at an open science nonprofit. As it so happened, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... -MIT years of working in tech. I did a postdoc at Harvard, in computational ... ’ve been a street medic – a first aid volunteer – at protests since 2011, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... all but one box and guess the number inside. If at most one advisor is ... embroidery, and become a master at advanced chickenology. [carousel image1

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  include:  my accent (“can you say no for me?”) my confusion at what a ... do we care about their foot"]foot [/annotation]is  my confusion at ... looked at me, and was like, “huh. boysenberry. haven’t heard that one

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing ... almighty MIT time. MIT time is a rule that applies to [annotation note="at least for undergrads"]every single class at MIT[/annotation] that states

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this ... LIBRARY! If you like audiobooks, consider getting a FREE library card at the ... -3 weeks at a time, and the library has so many copies of the more popular

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot ... no plans, no itinerary, no agenda (well, until August, at least) and ... surgeon, but also good at all of these things too: she’s basically the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  people at mit"? i think it's mostly undergrads, people in related friend ... tribe." I think it's dishonest to say that everyone at MIT likes everyone ... potentially being true. What makes the people so good at MIT is that every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched ... gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... laptop. Two families with small kids order at the register. Every few

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore ... one night I was at MIT. This is relevant because today is both CPW, MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  commit to in the cup holder next to me. At last, I was able to open a ... unsupportive friend group at the time who was happy to see the overachiever ... MIT for transfer or grad school. After my first semester at my college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It ... asleep at my desk.  I still love painting, but my relationship with art is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  one blog every two weeks and check-ins are scheduled at that same ... -ins are pretty chill and always have excellent snacks. We always spend at ... depends on who's blogging at the time and what they want to get out of it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  five things that you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) eat in the Glass Lab ... them at the Glass Lab, I ensured that I’d be the first to get my hands on ... was a mechanism to release all the flavour at once. Once again, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community ... a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  at MIT. If there is something you want to do, there is always some way ... . Through the Council for the Arts at MIT, you can get free or discounted ... backgrounds than mine and I saw them excelling at things I struggled deeply with

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  quitting grad school. I draw you at an “underground" figure drawing event ... this life too. A stranger told me so at Washington Square Park

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  adventures along the river or at dances— they're real. I could write that post ... !) IHTFP and IHTFP. In between the dances and adventures, I smile at the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022