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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  deep of a topic. "Just write about your favorite shows and stuff, Mel," I ... that I don't just casually enjoy feels like a crime. Admitting that I like something to someone I'm not familiar with feels like forcing a

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

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a real reason - college Jeopardy auditions. College Jeopardy requires a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... answer. The rules are a bit more complicated than that, and are best

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... ="54230" /] I feel very strongly about Seattle in a way that I haven't felt about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I realize now that I'm a blog behind so enjoy this extra little blog. I just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  Last Thursday, MIT Medical had a walk-in clinic at Walker, where MIT community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit ... the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  necessary, i end my sentences with a period. This is how I usually write on ... Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a ... think I have a personal twist to the standard style that actually might be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... comprehend my state of mind back then. I want to have a conversation with that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed about college essays. It's interesting how life changes. A year ago ... : - There is a physics pset due tomorrow. - I am hungry. I need food. - I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me--”what?”--the second time around I think it might have been a catcall so I walk quickly ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends ... lived in one room. There isn’t a typical Randomite and there isn’t a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I began first grade, she received a polite but concerned note from my ... from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week ... shoes looked a little lonely and abandoned that morning, so I went back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it ...   and laughing at a bizarre article about the "craziest items seized by ... friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and basically a crash course in being a leader in the engineering workplace over a

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... . That something is match. We talk a lot about match here at MIT ... and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

    I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a ... different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  mathematical set "inside". But that's not (entirely) true. In fact, there's a ... to have an infant within a 3 foot radius who's extremely unhappy to be ... wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  There are currently a little over 2,500 blogs entries on this site. I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... monopoles. Fortunately, the blogs also come prepackaged with a convenient way

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  around comes around) but this last Monday pushed me a step or so towards ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... wonderful gem of an invention called Mastering Physics (expect a healthy entry

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008