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• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  I first arrived at MIT as a tourist, a thirteen-year-old with glasses ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the website, you can see other people's comments, and write a comment yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically ... ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a ... 's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own feelings as an Asian American who exists right now. it’s been a long year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens ... that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... this mailing list has unfortunately hit a steep decline ever since COVID

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... Engineering), so I converted one of my desks into a lab bench: When I took ... involved soldering a bunch of components to a [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i ... stuck on a meal plan anyway. i just would stay home! i like my parents, i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  cumin, and eggs. I added a jalapeño and a metric fuck ton of chili powder because, uh, why not? Shakshuka is great because it functions as both a ~uwu fancy brunch with the homies~ food and a ~god i've been eating shit

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison ... calendar. [caption id="attachment_50016" align="aligncenter" width="300"] a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... [/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common ... it up! You've probably learned a lot about yourself while writing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , ethically, and emotionally. As a cofounder of FIRST, he was known for bringing ... have ever encountered: an attentive listener, a thoughtful respondent ... everything he did. I had admired him while a FIRST student in high school; when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in ... .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues taking notes [annotation note="hahaha I guess I should become a doctor :P

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... a week meeting and greeting freshmen, holding REX events in B entry

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  important possessions into a suitcase weighing a little over 50 pounds, a stuffed backpack, and a very stuffed guitar case, i hopped on a 6 hour ... wandering around LA [annotation note="groceries, getting a bus card, etc

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... other intermittent meals. ...baked, I wanted to give baking a shot, too ... 's been a few years since I'd been to either. My friend and I made the trek

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  This was me about a year ago: Even now, I remember what it felt ... hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... the signals changed. The sky was a pleasant grey, and my face felt the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018