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  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  Hello. It's everyone's favorite angery boi... KING CRIMSON!! I don't really know why I introduced my post like this, but this dude ... occurred recently. Namely with my schedule. A few blog posts ago, I said I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  I had been reading the admission blogs all through high school purely for recreational purposes, and when I decided to apply I went back, but this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... . The more I read this description, which is provided by the narrator via a depressed character, Kate Gompert, in the book, the more I realized

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I would post updates from my West Coast trip after I returned, so, here is my trip report, with 100% more screaming toilets than I had anticipated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend and ate the blackberries and apple and cheese I brought from home, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  Waiting is hard. Waiting is incredibly hard. Well, I guess that depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  Six and a half hours ago, this was me: Why? Because I, like Elizabeth, am officially done with finals!!! I left campus about 2 hours ago, and ... airport is packed, and I've already spotted several MIT hoodies and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... . I have a Macbook Pro for goodness' sakes!!" ANGER: "What do you mean

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing useless information from interesting useless information, so I usually opt ... past, I observed that my calendar looked like it was about to suffer an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  I have a way of always picking really time-consuming HASS classes ... /Writing Poetry (21W.756), I'm almost as stressed out about my HASS classes as lab and 8.06. I really love both these classes though. I'm this walking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high ... , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been ... and Society in America (which I really love) - and thinking about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  Brief background: I try to be healthy. I don't eat junk food, and I do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... Marathon. Granted, the marathon isn't until April, but I have my work cut out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... job to fix them. The problem with this framing, I think, is that it ... that I just don't believe. If you think about it for a few more moments

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in ... Francisco. Well, I lived in Manila, as much as I've lived in Boston and San ... right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  isn't putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I ... "]window.[/annotation] I’m fine, more or less, and this isn’t complete burnout, yet, but I am

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

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her ... masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ' tv show record scratch* OK, so you're probably wondering how I got here... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip from distant lands to Cambridge, via Boston Logan Airport. I hold great

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  [caption id="attachment_55805" align="aligncenter" width="500"] i ... a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I ... . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope for assignment submission and grading. I like gradescope more than other online-submission platforms I've used. It comes down to the grading system

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020