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  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure ... of kindness, generosity, patience, and general wholesomeness is exactly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... fine. Weirdly enough it refused to concatenate the first video, which is why it’s separated from the rest. Anyway, here it is. It’s over 40

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one of the only nearby places open until 11:00 PM. This place is freakin’ perfect (which is why I don’t mind shamelessly plugging it on the blog). BUT

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to ... , because my boyfriend is doing GTL and SO MANY of my friends are gone as well ... ! fencing - fencing is kind of intense over IAP because we have meets almost

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and ... about what the future is going to hold. Consider it the junior-year crisis ... lot of it is good stuff that's happened to me. By no means has this year

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... simultaneously is a blessing and a curse -- it takes the pressure off of work much ... start watching a movie every night for the rest of PNR. This is a very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  in my case is my mentor, since my team's manager works in cambridge. my ... goals i made with steven. the work building is by the lake, and every day ... 's good pay, the lake is wonderful, seattle is great, the commute is an easy

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what people gush over when talking about the Pacific Northwest is the hiking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... Tex, which for me who is honestly pretty horrible at anything that involves a computer, is going, well, slowly. Hopefully, I will have it down by the time

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  happening. And yet, that moment is embedded into my mind. It’s the first thing ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun is shining over the Boston skyline. The river moves with a gentleness

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  into two categories, and the amount I spend on each category is extremely ... that I took out of this month is time management when things started ... hours, independent time devoted to studying, that is really at the student

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... U.S. counterpart shrivel out of weakness. The mixture is so thick that ... residence for the next three weeks, is a small suburban city about 30 minutes

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  last but not least: the abundance of information that is shared with all ... is a non-competition flight. Competing is prohibited on the entire ... destroying the non-competition work ethic is prohibited by widespread

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  I think the advice that has helped me the most is the advice from ... ; Advice from Graduating Seniors John P. '17 MIT is a great opportunity for personal growth, and a big part of that is understanding your limits. Find

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been ... start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is ... . Partial Production, Partial Passion There is a literal folder in my google

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building ... a place to me over the past semester/several months: even though it is ... see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Allan K.' 17 once put it, "Stanford is never far from MIT"). Grab some ... students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  was as feared then as it is today. There was a poem perfectly describing ... graduate from Course XI. is not an impossibility."  The Sanitary Engineers ... ) was described in the yearbooks in the following way: "This Course is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  myself, "Oh well that one organization called Water.org is solving this ... out in the world and meeting people like this little girl is what put me ... clean water to over 3 million people. The organization that is really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  -athlete. The job has been trying in the cases when I've had to edit work that is ... in releasing work that I think is wrong, and it's a little painful ... 'm not sure yet what I think the correct course of action is. Also: we

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016