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  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  it is D.C. and inauguration season, we weren't entirely shocked that ... talking about for days. So I guess this is your sign to go to fancy ... next day I visited Old Town Alexandria, which is slightly Boston-core in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  Date: Jul 6, 2024, 1:14 AM Subject: [annotation note='this is SUCH a ... morning is really fun. I’ve been so healthy, and have recognized how much harder it is to maintain healthy habits during the school year. I’ll miss

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  here. This story is also accompanied by three strategies I thought were ... itself, so I think I will leave this here. The one thing I will say is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  Wide[annotation note='Wide Tim is a whimsical student ... him on my water bottle that travels with me everywhere I go. Today is ... imagine.  As WIDE as the Borderline tunnel or the Infinite Corridor is long

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  . doing a stupid Traditionally, the sophomore stupid is performed by ... semester stupid. Unfortunately for me, there is no overlap between the ... drop classes or not is never a good idea, but I am happy to constantly be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  the waitlisted thread: For all those waitlisted, here is some thoughts ... as a rejection with prolonged pain. What I didn't know is that those 2 ... promise this decision is not going to be as painful for as long as you think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  In September 2021, when I posted about the new Welcome Center that is ... ’re conspiring on with our old friend Ceri R. ’16, that is not live yet, but which ... ) Today is the day of that loud blog, because last week we officially

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  barely exercise, and also my time management is a mess, and maybe I should ... ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me ... decade I start a company with my younger brother, who is on a gap year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i ... case earlier - my sleep schedule is actually better than it was in years ... going on, but it turns out this is actually a normal response to stress

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  . Is it blessed or cursed? I can't say for sure, but now it's on the ... in this post, this is the only one I had planned out beforehand ... to fill the remaining space instead. My favorite one is the alien

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... company that has existed for many years already; everything is so new here, and there is a lot of room to grow. It's exciting to be around other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... across Manhattan without stopping. Life here is so fast paced. You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure ... that she is, was responsible for directing us to. We relaxed, and we didn ... (NOLA is famous for its fortune-tellers), so we decided that the next

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I have ... face. My sorority is bringing me tons of stress, I had an awful concert ... this? Is this some kind of karmatic punishment for something I did? So

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  MIT is overwhelming. Though this sounds painfully obvious, I don’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... -encompassing. Any individual aspect of MIT is, on its own, manageable, but put it all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  experience since the team is quite rigorous, but the team environment was hard ... annual show is then and we spend all of January preparing for it. formals ... night, which is the week before finals, we dress up, make fancy cocoa

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  behalf? The interesting thing about this question is that we often get ... answer is always the same: "Whoever can write most compellingly about you ...  when they should have taught you. It is indeed very common for letters to come from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  , the thing that they do most is rehearsal. my first few rehearsals were ... -to-five and complaining about how hard it is to land a decent job. and sometimes ... how so much of what i'm doing came from just watching others, but it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  never find my way back. Life is so much easier when there’s nothing that ... class is nearly at the Terror. I’m doing the readings; I’m really glad I ... quart of ice cream apiece, so the freezer in 4W is half-full of only ice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  past 5 years so it is definitely a steep, steep learning curve and I ... they are mundane to show you what life is on a day-to-day basis at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021