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  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note ... "]four for cake,[/annotation] [annotation note="Humble pie"]one for pie,[/annotation] and [annotation note="Aiden: 2 Ice Cream: 0"]zero for ice cream

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  my younger self for behaving that way. they just had a lot of growing ... unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let ... for help when i need it. thinking about the steadfast support and love

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I ... child holding on to his toys for too long. But even so I would not say I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding ... . It seems like Ishiguro doesn’t hit hard for everyone, but I’d still say ... it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can ... . Think about it: for the last nearly 100 years Superman has been THE

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at ... studying for swe interviews because of my explorations as a novice electrical ... campus and internships for not having enough background. And while that has

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  students at MIT, I’m not at home for this Thanksgiving. I won’t be eating my ... importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask for, I requested beans and chicken. I made eggs with no oil and then ... Kerry Way uses these routes, winding for miles through private pasture

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  on for miles with no interruptions. The path is secluded from the road ... believe this was a Christmas Eve hike. We’re Jewish, so Christmas for me ... unpleasant for them but never long enough to wipe them out. When I run or bike

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic ... the world of Splash if I had shown up for the teacher training, but I ... night before our classes, which were set for 9am on Sunday. I realized

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about ... I'm happy with. I don't have a lot to show for my interest in AI other ... and over for three hours straight, with no improvement in sight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  wishing for specific outcomes from these things inevitably leads to ... wandering, and i am grateful to stoicism for providing that   iii. one ... mistake the latter for the former if you’re not reading carefully, but they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the ... . March 12, 2020: After my afternoon classes, I walk into the glass lab for ... prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  classrooms around campus. She asked for my ideas. Something deep? I suggested ... out what I wanted to write, then procrastinated for several months ... Spain, travelling alone. I met a flamenco dancer for hot chocolate and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  spread myself across campus. I stepped into New House for the first time ... little and doing the same for them."]big,[/annotation] ehua, and meeting ... because it's been something that has been on my mind for almost three years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten ... : okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a ... , and he’s suggesting all these schemes for how he can turn the fishing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... something that i'd get sent to the hospital for"]occasionally literally) foam ... [/annotation] A LOT of anime. For somebody [annotation note="i still claim this, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a ... reputation for melodrama, but in retrospect, I think that this magnification of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you ... implement them as modules for Microsoft's open-source privacy toolkit. At the ... (snack bar, a fridge of cold drinks, and plenty of machines for various hot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... am not patient enough for it. project management - I'm gonna be ... lot about what the future holds for me, if I'll get to pursue all these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020