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  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  family. I miss my friends. I miss MIT. I miss having a normal life. After ... : Gravity Falls is a story about two twins, Dipper and Mabel, who move to ... . At first, it seems a little boring and janky, but the twins quickly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here's a recent one: Jim Olson '74, OG MacG resident, answered some questions I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... ’d recommend looking back at your revision history. Not only is it a cringey ... because the prompt confused me a LOT. I spent many nights lying awake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  Last weekend, I wrote “A Guide to Farmer's Markets". Here’s what I ... think vegetables are a *big deal*, but anyway, my point is, I don't think ... --especially when, in this day and age, bad news is always a mouse-click away. Rather

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  A few weeks ago I did an interview with the Raising Problem Solvers ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  As if someone flipped a switch, this year's unnaturally warm autumn ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding ... , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the time, Jonathan only knew basketball. A few hours later, he had memorized

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally ... , since it's not a question of whether I belong or not; it's doubt of my ... that every MIT degree is made equal, whether that means a 5.0 GPA or a 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really ... you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of skeletal structures, glued pipes together. I can code a bit in Fusion now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  the rooftops of Greece before moving into a quaint apartment with seven ... distance and the time and the everything else placed such a strain on us, I ... that was difficult and confusing. I remember staring in a mirror and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Coco; a full, encapsulating, body-shaking sob. Even minutes after the movie had ended, my hands shook with such a fierce tremor and I remember just calling up my grandparents and telling them how much I love them. A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to ... gave up on bullet journaling within a few weeks. My effort level had gone to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  .edu. As I blogged here, the data showed we had a large overlapping audience ... Upstatement),  and embark upon a shared research, design, and engineering effort ... , our blogging platform was showing its age, and we wanted a better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a ... I had attempted to be (for lack of a better cliche) jack of all trades and therefore, master of none. I was more of a humanities

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and ... school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... , Chinese, Klingon, and Gibberish, get a 3250 on my ACT and still not got in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  organization. As an MIT undergraduate, Smith was a member of the student team that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the ... to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be ... mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you ... never become a successful computer scientist." I then take a couple of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... , kids) or taking a (very) brief study break. But something whisked me away ... interface. I need to tell you a story, prospective students and fellow MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011