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Blog / Life after MIT
A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis
you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... ’t know what I wanted to write at first when Petey reached out for posts ... . “For a long time,” he said, “MIT has recruited people who are great at -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square
-variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in lecture, and at some point thinking: "is this what mathematicians do all day -
Blog / Life after MIT
things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔
miss? I miss being able to eat a Huge Wrap from this eating place at school that is known for them (however, I was at school 2 months ago and ... turn the first piece of paper, and I have NO IDEA what I am looking at -
Blog / People & Identities
[guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26
stunning. Too stunning at times, which made it feel almost unreal. Back home ... day, I felt even confident enough to dare and hold a bunny in my arms at ... E pumpkin carving competition, where teams competed for a prize. At first, I -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships
drips of the night, chatting away. I remember sitting there and looking at ... at a late night conversation, we were [annotation note="In a healthy ... unsafe at parties" versus "She sometimes is very sensitive and we have to -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee
end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... rejoicing. We eat lunch at a fairly new ramen place outside of Central Square ... far too academic far too quickly, but somehow it doesn't seem so at this -
Blog / Academics & Research
majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school
humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little ... fully pursuing the computer science degree at MIT? Am I "giving up" or ... summer after, I worked at Microsoft as an Explore intern where I did -
Blog / Challenges
and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor
gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... would smile and laugh a bit. I'd stare at the corner of the screen where I ... . How can a college class bring me to tears just at mentioning it? Shame -
Blog / Challenges
When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester
Caroline P., but all my friends at MIT call me Powers (which is my last name ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it. Throughout high ... changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then -
Blog / Academics & Research
everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things
weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking at course listings, and suddenly. She realizes. That everything is ... convey my point, I present to you the not-at-all-exhaustive and not-at -
Blog / Life after MIT
Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19
's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... approach ultimately had to cancel their plans to bring students back at the ... , it seems like universities keep announcing plans at the last minute -
Blog / How to Human
Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team
student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross-registration helped me make friends at Harvard and how our friendship has evolved since ... previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal -
Blog / Academics & Research
Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation
Shuli answering questions about life at MIT. It was a surprisingly ... , aka attitude, at certain times (point the antenna at the ground communication station when we want to communicate, point the camera at the ocean -
Blog / MIT Life
Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor
commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe ... time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I ... they will be. I'm amazed at nearly every single person at MIT, but there -
Blog / How to Human
On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care
This past week was probably the worst I've encountered at my time at ... Musical at 10PM, heading to bed around 1 after watching some dumb You ... (the best High School Musical, obviously.) I slept at 2AM that night -
Blog / Uncategorized
an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy
my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... mine, smiled, then looked at me with a serious face and said simply ... like aikawa-sensei can."]late to class[/annotation] at this [annotation -
Blog / Advice
CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...
students' weekend or day I had been to. I didn't know what to expect at all ... exploring a new city on my own (I'd always been picked up at the airport before). There are plenty of events for parents at CPW, and lots of them do