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• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... distances are HARD. 800 meters is sprinting 2 laps, the first lap at 80%, the second starting at 95% and ending at 110%. While I was quite mediocre - I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full ... ; When the decision day rolled around, I woke up at noon, 14 minutes before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  writing poems then, but really quite casually. At MIT sometimes it can feel ... lot of endeavors here at MIT you need this form of precision and rigor ... symbols that became a distant beauty that holds my will like the gold at the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  had been measured at 364.4 Smoots ± 1 ear, and bright yellow, purple ... .   Um, duh. So at 10 pm, I scooter on over to the bridge. There ... at the faded letters reading ‘Halfway to Hell,’ I ask him, “So, which

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  I am and does not detect me as a moving entity despite walking at a ... rainbow ripples that you might see if you looked at your computer screen ... land on the vastness of the Charles all at once. It's hard to see in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship ... winter break at MIT, I started folding modular origami – origami composed ... visually striking. I made this one out of sticky notes at work! Excavated

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... ."]which happens at MIT more than I’m proud to admit[/annotation]), and I also put ... -aggressively tell me to get better at dispensing water, but to our surprise, the QR

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  helped fixed my sleep schedule, at least for now, before classes ramp up ... process takes maybe twenty minutes at most, but it’s so essential in helping me maintain my creative spirit at MIT. Figuring out what to wear is a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  .) I’ve never been very good at school. This feels strange to admit ... someone. I can go to lectures and do my homework and pass my classes, but at ... this happen, why should I sit at a desk and work for somebody else? But I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in ... 've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let ... think at that time of semester i spent a lot of time playing kingdom of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Spinning Arts exec meeting at 5pm, [annotation note="time for people to get ... people get to spin stuff on fire outdoors."]spinjam[/annotation] setup at 6 ... of my poem in my room, so I had to walk back to EC. At EC, I realized I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime ... requirement, which is made up of eight subjects of at least nine units each ... my feelings made more sense: Possible answer: At some point, I found

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  , because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation ... instead of someone who's lost and drifting at sea, trying to find a way back ... because i’m good at making people feel good. i’m good at making people feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the ... . Eventually, people got better, but my family and I still jump at phone calls ... , my sorority twin's little, Dasha, didn't get recruited at all. In all

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  one of my favorite classes at MIT. I will likely write an entire post ... lecture. I don't do a single reading. I go to recitation and look at optical ... my time at MIT in general. A few months back, I checked into a hotel

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I ... files. I am downright horrendous at keeping digital spaces clean, so my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not ... at Math Prize all over again; that Covid might end and my high school ... in[/annotation], and he kind of just blinked at me and went,  “You

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... learning curve to be steep. This is true to most courses at MIT. That's why ... -points. Thus, 6.0001 felt a little sterile at times. 6.0001 is in 26-100, which

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  idea that I might not succeed or be good at something hadn’t crossed my ... tried, I just couldn’t figure it out. Well, at least not at first. “I ... mentioned what I actually failed at doing. The reason for that is that it

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021