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  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  Two years ago in freshman year (:O so long ago), I wrote this poem. I ... to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... light trumps their radiance The buildings appear twice: once in substance

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in WordPress"]only four[/annotation] contain equations typeset in [latex ... shows up everywhere in mathematics. Wikipedia lists a few dozen famous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... ="alignnone" width="768"] what if we gathered in vermont and stared directly at the sun ... here are some of those who responded to me. Michael C '16 Here in Dallas

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more ... grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... to, especially when only two others in my close friend group are moving

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream school was Columbia University (sorry, MIT) because it was in the Big Apple. I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... bound to each other, constantly in orbit, trying to survive the most ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of ... takeaway is that starting in around fall of 11th grade, I was constantly just ... first time in years. I spent most of the spring just doing nothing: taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... article, "never in Boston’s long and storied weather history (since 1872

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... paper for my [annotation note="21G.038(China in the News)"]CI-H class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... — have found meaning in these books too. You may be encountering this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

   and take some fun classes and do some fun things here in Boston. ...cooked ... horizontal hierarchy and whitespace in our arrangements. Pretty cool. Got to ... admission to the MFA and ICA, among other museums in the Boston area, and it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its ... , and Social Science. The report, written in the historical context of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... written, because it demonstrates in fact what, in our decisions day posts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  more in my first year here. With the quote displayed on the giant screen ... been said. There was much to reflect on—in one hour, Professor Flowers ... critical thinking, gain wisdom about the world and our place in it. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  Pre-trip background: IAP (Independent Activities Period) in Pavia ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  plans for the future, and also will be hitting the 50% point in my book ... months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017