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  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  “where are you from?” is interesting to me — when someone asks me that now, my first response is to say Missouri with a somewhat sheepish ... which high school one goes to is quintessentially St. Louisan. I never

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  a lobotomized goldfish, people are really nice about it, which is why ... sofas, but such is frosh tea time. Making friends in college is ... (I’ve made salty pancakes before so this is a huge improvement) going

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week ... , but ten times: my top five and my bottom five. Can you guess which is ... what is to come to me as it just so happens I was and the in the items in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  upperclassman visited. He graduated two years ago, and is now working remotely at ... months or years and decades? Is six hours a lot of time? Nine days? A ... what happens after you graduate. "Which is understandable. You

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  couldn't find any motivation. All I want to do right now is lie down. Not ... wounds and trudging on, until enough of me is scraped off that nothing is ... splitting the rock in two, surikire, and the time it takes is go kou, twenty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period ... without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time ... alongside the nine-to-five intern life.) Without further ado, here is my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  dump it in while the egg part is cooking/nearly done. This allows me to ... melon child.[/caption] Fun fact: This movie is the very movie that would ... 've learned is self discipline, as well. I still need to treat myself a bit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  , maybe it really is.   I don’t know about what it was like at other ... —preemptively, at that—is nothing but painful. The seniors got to experience four ... floor formal. Formal is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  art is also a history of agriculture, marking humanity’s complex relationship with the land...In this era of impending climate catastrophe, it is ...  favorite delicacy. The texture is so unique and fun and delicious, even in its plain

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... the shit they talk about you is downright rude, racist, or sexist. I ... friendship to fall apart. If someone is giving you guff for making it into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  winning is done (paraphrasing Rocky).   I'd like to leave you with my new favorite quote and mantra for 2017. It is not the critic who counts ... who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  Expectation: There is no way I’m getting into MIT, let alone becoming ... something? Nothing is stopping me. I want to do something? Nothing is stopping ... start. Reality: The square dancing life is not for me :’o Before

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  -20…and apparently got a spot.” "This service leadership program" is ... : “My name is Elaine.” Me: Elaine? Peter: Elaine. Me: Any idea who the artist is? Peter: …maybe Elaine?” “Our driver didn’t speak any English

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  dawning on me with weight, the fact that my freshman year is over. And it ... them. They’re done. Summer is on the way. But I was just thinking. And this is likely the last night my roommate and I will share a room. He

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Being home is...odd. Being off school and having no pressing obligations is a little strange after ... own room at home, though familiar, is also odd because I'm finding

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  .   Here are 50 Shades of Break. This is a collection of the favorite ... online is definitely the best part though (: 20) Do something randomly nice ... . It makes me laugh, which is also something I enjoy a lot. I have a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  Orphan Annie. Tessie is, like Annie, a little orphan, but unlike Annie, she ... is around, I shoot for the high notes without worrying about damaging ... , auditioning for a musical is basically my worst nightmare: not only can people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  kindergarten when they taught you how to identify vegetables. *This phrase is ... curry chicken), but all that truly matters is that Ben inevitably almost ... matters is that every Saturday, we sat down to a delightful home-cooked meal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  each day – that is to say, we crossed the road many times each day. Traffic in India is bumper-to-bumper in a very real sense. Take a big road ... project, these groups also reminded us that urban poverty is far worse than

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very excited for MIT, but ... " is what I seriously told myself. And I totally get your "poet" vs ... , physically, mentally (and every other "lly" way). MIT is about educating the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007