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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  employee at Coldstone calling me brave when I asked to try it. I should've ... thing they're professionals (I hope). I've never seen jars of peanut ... good, because I've substituted my daily cup of Earl Grey with the free

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  giving away free Vitamin Water (I've recently become a big fan of Vitamin ... the say 20 times I've drank it in the past two months, I think I've paid

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  and Madhuri Dixit; unlike Devdas, I've never seen it. Another one from a ... Opera is something I enjoy, and I'm happy that I've seen some Cantonese ... the music. 0x9. Dr. Dre, Let's Get High. Yeah, I've liked Dre

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never written these before. I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve done in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  outside of what I've always known get realized was really striking. I was ... Palacio de Bellas Artes which has the most stunning architecture I've ever ... . I've never felt more White. I am technically half-White on my mom

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed ... , “If you’ve seen one rural or small town, you’ve seen…well…one rural or ... nearest Taco Bell is a full tank of gas away. Maybe you’ve gotten really

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  completely forgot. I’ve spent the whole day looking forward to Blood Moon Fest ... ? NELLIE: Ooh, Pi Day! I completely forgot about that. I’ve been too busy ... today. BEATRICE: (laughs) I’ve been drowning in sooo many math psets that

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  i've started collecting cds. i think part of this has come from ... collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was ... words. i like their rotating selection of $1 cds to choose from, so i've

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a ... PNR-core). But! This Thanksgiving, most of us are on campus, so we’ve ... chaotic spreadsheet, we’ve arrived at a (prospective) menu: Is it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our ... our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of ... sidewalk with a metal pipe. I’ve consumed an inhumane amount of boba which

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  and unavoidable reflections on how I’ve been feeling once again. So ... we lose the one thing we’ve attached to ourselves to put us apart? What happens when, in the middle of everything we could’ve ever wanted, we don

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  , lived in lab night and day. I’ve fallen deeply into projects before, but ... deeply. I’ve been wanting to have this group project experience at MIT for ... ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  "listening to your body"; that we should've quit at mile 54 when things started ... say you've done something is almost never worth it. I could tell you ... great; other times, you would've been much better off taking a break, or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  -professional clubs proliferate like dandelions—I’ve found it reasonably simple to avoid ... other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... -against-the-grain required—a decision to sacrifice time and effort that could’ve been put

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  Seethapathi Lab and in just a few short weeks, we've leveled up my trajectory ... ’t seem likely. Keita A. ’23: I’m a senior, and I’ve taken this IAP to do ... figures  in London: 21L.591, aptly called ‘Literary London’. As a result, I’ve

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  ; Writing and Re-Telling Fairy Tales was probably the best writing workshop I’ve ... extra questions on the spot, which we also delved in to. I’ve never ... examining the flaws and strengths in each others’ writing. I’ve been in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  was flailing. Some part of me felt like a past version of me should've ... ; surely, an added dollop of efficiency and just a little more grit could've ... now, seven semesters in, I forget. Over break, I've been reading a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might’ve ... , because our math department is very toxic sometimes and he would’ve felt ... . That’s a lesson I could’ve possibly learned at another school. But MIT is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  , I feel like I’ve definitely refined some core themes. It's largely as ... particularly interested in pure, abstract math. But I've started considering ... -3, but I've more or less dropped the idea, since I'm not as excited about

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... I’ve learned throughout the past few weeks, with [annotation note

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021