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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  .A. and New York have such distinguished vibes. This is a tragedy. Having ... ="104068" /] Monet is my favorite painter of all time (I would decorate my entire house ... into the Monet room for too long and just stared. My favorite part is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision ... .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... that perfectionism is purely evil, because I do believe there are cases

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... will become. And, as a consequence, who you become is deeply entangled ... envisioned. But what I want to tell you, is that you didn't do anything wrong

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous ... cannot describe. 6. Modular furniture Each piece of Simmons furniture is ... . [caption id="attachment_83259" align="aligncenter" width="500"] This is an

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  /framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can ... look for a couple of different things. One thing is we're looking for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... group of people can form a legitimate support system is just incredibly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white girls. It is true that year after year, the rich white kids were the ones voted onto homecoming court and student government.  But it is also true

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a ... walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... just [annotation note="it is, in reality, physically a very small city as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  . The underlying white supremacy was one and the same; and it is still the ... Americans. Melanin is melanin, regardless of origin. And we all fight the same ... country as racially traumatized as this to heal with a president who is only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  ="aligncenter" width="313"] another perk is the incessant stream of emails from record ... version of history. My [annotation note="Though the station is now operating ... and some banter about music. [annotation note="By now it is too late

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  as we all focus on this murder, there is another happening, and another ... I STILL DOING THIS. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AGAIN. I AM SO SICK I AM SO ... HATE HOW THIS IS NORMAL. HOW WE KNOW WHAT TO DO. HOW THIS IS JUST LIFE

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... activity is limited to a few hours of talking to friends every now and then ... from what's necessary. guys, virtual school is so emotionally taxing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year ... important to floor culture, so this is pretty tragic. Thankfully, efforts to ... be restored, but this renovation is still impactful on each of the dorm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  , but it is actually uncanny how déjà vu senior year of college feels. It ... applications! Being a senior, whether in high school or college, is just really hard! Uncertainty is right on the horizon, and it feels like the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  DIII Tournament, which is pretty cool because it's the second time ever that MIT has made it that far. Physically, retirement means my body is ... Undergraduate Research The sad part is, as much as I try to deny it, I think I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  jolts you from both sides and you realize again, that this is not a place ... shame you thought you would only feel as a child while learning what is right or wrong. It's that oppressive, invisible feeling that someone is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to ... necessary, i end my sentences with a period. This is how I usually write on ... style, my System 2 is being used. It's slower and more methodical. I type

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . This is what the East Coast looks like from an airplane window: I’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of ... Being asthmatic, cold air is basically my worst enemy (cold air=dry air

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  actually could sleep in… sleep is wonderful), we were still very, very busy ... here is a picture of us and our grandma doing our massive amount of ... blog was super random. It probably is. But we just really wanted to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017