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  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions ... will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did ... ’s surface. Truly a magical experience that you have to see in person. (Minor

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

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot ... one step at a time. When I started my freshman year, I simply looked up ... for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... id="attachment_95689" align="alignright" width="225"] A great view for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and ... ...," nor can I quantify the anxiety it evokes. I did a "senior sale" to get ... , but this time, it's a race against the clock counting down to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Symbolic and Mathematical Computing). They didn’t speak much and expressed a ... ,” I asked as I wrote out [annotation note="A second-order differential equation describing a particle in a gravitational field"]a Schrödinger

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... and ready to start (and finish) the 7.012 PSET. Instead, I woke up a few hours later practically unable to speak from a sore throat. So, it was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  the tired eyes of a poor researcher?” if I continue to print at this ... would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anything else, I should give a disclaimer that this post is based on ... "] SDS [/annotation] suggests that it’s “not expected to present a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals. With the end of the semester coming up, I've been reflecting a lot about ... coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  found a few unexpected tidbits: [caption id="attachment_57457" align ... get him a cake from costco instead. you know, like normal people ... birthday cakes in a simple 3-step process involving two safety trainings, a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  a summer sunset, as it filled the sky with orange and blue, as i held ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable ... last two summers for a summer camp over at bu, just across the river

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  analytics and research for the MIT Center for Information Systems Research, a Sloan lab that I stumbled upon during a desperate mid-April I need-to-get-the-fuck-out-of-my-house-and-find-a-UROP frenzy. I really like the work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  . This summer, we've had more time to be in the kitchen, and we've made a ... already! Its SO good omg. The dough is flaky and buttery, but not in a gross way (we are probably a minority of people who most of the time don

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  second quarter. (If your school uses a trimester schedule, please use your ... something to report. If you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades ... this section. Next, we have provided you with a simple text box. This is

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  available for the fall semester or second quarter. (If your school uses a ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... .
   Next, we have provided you with a simple text box. This is the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  attend as a prefrosh. But this is really fun as an MIT student, too~ I ... did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a ... excited along with them. It’s weird that only seven months ago, I was a pre

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  On an extra-long Wednesday a week ago, when spring break has come and ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual ... opera, Les Miserables on Broadway, and a million great things at the Mo

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... , sustained periods. What's sprinting for us, is a comfortable pace for them. A ... ; ^ a non-metaphorical sprint, from a past weekend in Big Basin.  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  available for the fall semester or second quarter. (If your school uses a ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... .
 Next, we have provided you with a simple text box. This is the best place

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015