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• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  their application posts as regular posts, but I just happened not to do ... of themselves next to every piece of work they do, which has to make ... any other: sometimes you feel like you're doing great work, sometimes

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

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  to 3-5. I tried to listen while showering, cooking, cleaning, or doing ... ; takeaways actually doing something all year is really satisfying. it also ... niche r/music thread. listen to whatever makes you happy! would I do this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... -deprecating way to put it, but I do think it's difficult to pare down all the ways I ... doing that. I also wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the next

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  and frequently arcane knickknacks I don't have any piercings, but I do ... , that I do not need a master's degree in CMS, as tempting as it sounds"]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  Supreme Court cases having to do with affirmative action, most recently ... opportunity, and shaping an environment in which all people can do their best ... common world together. We do not know yet how the Supreme Court will rule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  are either very large or very small, and generally do not open. But back ... — and spent about twice as much time doing so as I did for my first day of ... would choose MIT again. And I would do so knowing I could take advantage

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  difficult for me to willingly do uncomfortable, not-so-fun things in pursuit ... doing the problems I already knew how to do, because they were fun, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  road trip. She asked, “Do you ride?” “No, but I want to.” I bounced ... me, “Do you ride?” and I said, “not yet,” I wondered if I was lying ... asked. “We’re looking for talent to do shows like this, yes,” she said

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  ’d crave.    You do read, actually. Articles. You are assigned, on ... you can do anything, if you put in the time. Dig up the right grants ... to struggle through, and only two more years to do so.   I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  . He asks me how I am. I say I'm doing well. I ask him how he is. He says ... to. I tell him I go to Boston College. I do that when I'm feeling a ... and record an audio of myself speaking, which I've been doing in lieu of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you know MIT as well as you think you do? These facts will totally blow your ... humming and even doing a little jig in front of the Borderline murals. Even

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  this impulse might actually be doing me more harm than good, and that the ... them ever realizing i'd abused staff powers to do so. it wouldn’t have ... dangerous, but the fact that i do have them means that, for now at least

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid ... 's climate system, a topic I find much more interesting. I wonder if I'm doing ... 't really know what to do about it except to power through.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  subcultures of mit, i do actually take on group identities and it usually turns ... ever. (the other reasons are that i enjoy most of the work i do, and that ... ’t know if i want to change or in what directions i would. what i do know is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  tech intern doing web development things. This was my third summer ... what I was doing. All this to say that until this summer I was a ... parents were looking after me. Doing the same this summer was a lot harder

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... : I do not have a time machine to go back and study the same person ... cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... do a little shopping, I got some good food from Trader Joe's, we walked ... and do work with friends. One thing that's really stood out to me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... promised myself that no matter what, I wouldn't do any work until the Monday ... to be thankful for than usual. But at least we do have, here in our

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  people seeking where I hide, there is no way to do this empirically – no ... .  Doing well in this game was very luck dependent. To make my decision, I ... pick by just picking what I might actually do if we were playing Hide and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  to do during the academic year since i didn't have a bike! bike's are ... with people who have about as much control over their lives as you do ... what she's doing. barbecuing — my apartment has a communal area for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020