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  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... Admissions website color scheme (but for the purposes of the Welcome, I ... prefrosh asked, “We’re all cool here.” To me, speaking in front of a 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  moving to Westgate at the end of the month, and suddenly we have to buy ... , forever for me), so I figure I have to start some sort of exercise routine ... the dorm from the end of August to the end of May and never move a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  decision. Also, it would force me to grow up and seek out that independence I ... bought lots of fruits to tide us over until we switched hotels. [carousel ... long time. I read more of LFE before getting too scared to continue since

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... automatically assume an abundance of resources. An “Introduction to Life outside

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  alternative was to come back early from Taiwan to do it next weekend, but of ... of the carrier, but you should be able to figure it out easily enough ... . Sighing, I resigned myself to waiting in line to use one of those machines

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  of the piece was to illustrate accents and the uniqueness of accents ... to embroidery a loose/free/abstract portrait of a woman, but I didn ... different parts of the face. I decided to do something more abstract and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  love my favorite pieces of media. Turning to fiction for comfort has ... like something to someone I'm not familiar with feels like forcing a ... Place is an incredible show that captures the essence of what it means to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch ... was wondering if/when you were going to start posting numbers of how ... allowed to admit each year, it is better for us to compare all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start ... introduced me to MIT, Cambridge, Boston, and a new group of awesome friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I loved crafting stories, too — they were a way to grab handfuls of ... , that they’re incapable of shutting. I decided to come to MIT and pursue ... choose to major in writing, a community of writers thrives. This community

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... Boston on 9/1, I didn't anything to sleep on. A combination of friends ... procedure. It's just that too many of the classes I want to take happen to be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  reality, it's to maintain some sort of relevance, to get the comments and ... I didn't really love to begin with and write blogs as some kind of ... surround it and MIT has next to nothing. I felt a twang of? jealousy? Anger

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  electronic device. I remember it reasonably well due to the traumatic nature of ... February span, many of those earlier thoughts began to settle down. I was ... serve to pass time. The second semester of senior year will hopefully be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall ... -attached to the idea of taking the course, and after some more talking with

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  building numbers - 83%. To assess my final knowledge of the MIT building ... sailing, RIP"]beginning of the year,[/annotation] but I managed to take ... study abroad, because they were more beneficial to me at the end of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  sorts of electrodes, forcing me to answer these questions as stated. But ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can ... prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  month of January to prepare for the show, dancing from 6-11 every weekday ... ecstatic to show them the results of how hard i'd worked over IAP. we weren ... week of December, the team held Mocha Formal and met to discuss ideas for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  was a new experience which led to a lot of frustration and more ... ’s usually referred to in the in-game dialogue) is kind of confusing ... you head to Mondstadt, the city of freedom, to start looking for Lumine

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... . someone added me to a black students' chat at the start of freshman year ... October?" The boy next to me, a friend of mine now, a nice guy, says, "Wait

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024