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  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  a joint post with Admissions Officer Jeremy, we stan Song: burnt ... than if I had been actively stressing about the wait"]A short while later ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded ... I know who really likes penguins (enough that she joined a sorority

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the camera pans around the dorm room, it’s 8am, and an alarm goes off. A hand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like...a lot. There ... -college life. You also realize that a lot of the shirts you've been hoarding carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my halfhearted attempt at keeping a Trello last fall. [caption id

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  following questions immediately. 1) When was MIT founded? 2) If MIT was a ... MIT is likely to face, come 2113? 6)Over a 1000 freshmen will be ... will you say hi to, if a new fish is born today? 7) “Are new fishes born

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange time. A time ... . But what you might not see, is that there is also a lot of positivity ... to decisions, can be answered by two things: having a little zen, and a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  because they were a long time ago and I'm getting old), and all these blog ... calmed me down, added a slight glaze to my eyes, and made me demand more ... funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy ... sending me a Valentine. In no particular order: 1.John Curtice I'm starting off with a huge, monolithic apology to John Curtice, mostly because

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  aside: The previous sentence sounds like it was written by a cattle ... prairies and folded under a blanket of metropolitan sprawl, Saint Louis is ... a national symbol of westward expansion, Barack Obama's favorite pizza

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  if I thought DEAPS would be fun. Would it be fun or would it be a waste ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... didn't for a few days. That's because I actually got busy with my UROP

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force.” “Just trust me. It’s a lot much faster with your thumb. Just always keep ... signs around every corner. We were just a first time team from an unknown

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  minimal consequences. And every year, we celebrate this fact with a whole ... was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot ... what the worst one was, and they said it was a sauce called “Da Bomb

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts"]CI-H[/annotation] philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... anthropology class teacher asked us to say our name and a small story related to our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  me happy, even though it makes my schedule a bit claustrophobic. But hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  now it's 12:45AM. I haven't done a "what am I taking this semester" post in a while, because I think I jinxed sophomore fall last time. I ... haven't felt so apprehensive about. It's mostly because I have a lot more

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024