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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable, but it's always a nuisance. You can go for weeks, months, years of your ... school year due to typhoons. It was just something that happened. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... corridor. it's actually not that long but everyone usually goes through it to ... guess it's the namesake of this post too!"] Infinite [/annotation] to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... conversations at all). Early adulthood feels like purgatory. It's so easy to hide ... to fix it, but it's not like falling and scraping my knee where my body

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade Boston but I am pretty sure it would not fly with campus police. But if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  : no we skipped it * * * ME: are you going to the activities midway ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... * * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  check. I tried to be all nonchalant about it so my mom wouldn’t see my ... concentrate. I decided to play video games to distract myself and, as it turns ... to make sure it was working”””” and read just the first line and couldn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  thought it was wonderful, and would often repeat the phrase to myself, “we ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are ... sentence was wrong. I should have corrected it to “sorry, I was born

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS ... research, knowledge, and exploration is linked to its "technical rigor ... as substance. It provides a great opportunity to reflect on what MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  residents. It's something I try not to think about when I wear it. Anyway, I ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my ... video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier ... the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015