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  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  the characters, and it was really nice to be able to take my mind off of ... used to be pretty deeply entrenched in the YouTube hole for the majority ... considered myself very good at the game PvP- and mechanics-wise. I used to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  audition for Toons, one of the many acapella groups on campus. (To be honest ... , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays relentlessly and questioned everything about myself, whether the things I liked

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  gone and the temperature's still in the thirties, and the wet gray ... drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the only air-conditioned room in Simmons – a great place to be at the ... there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My ... into Apple products. Simmons does have the best bathrooms, though, so I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  , what does it mean to be mentally healthy? at the lab where i UROPed this ... be rational and still choose to place value on emotion. the problem is ... actually be used in a meeting or a presentation. The work has been manageable

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  the rest of this story should be saved for another entry. Check back ... the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I ... ’t have any free MIT wifi. But the biggest change for me is this: I am not

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test ... .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... MIT has had those words written across the bottom. After freshman year

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  the weekend, I was pretty sure that it would be fun to just improvise ... ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events ... amazing, and CPW was the first time that I pulled a non-academic, non

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool ... remember it being good. After the worksession, I head back to hall and ... ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... through it but this weekend that was not the case. The trip back was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  “Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It ... your thumb above the buzzer, so you’re always ready to buzz in.” “Okay

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly ... first time there as a tourist. The difference being it was vastly more fun ... myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  ’ve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW, you know that didn’t work out. The Icebreaker and CPW Festival were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... "]HASS[/annotation] ones, so my workload isn't as bad as it could be, but I'm struggling to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase ... . The next day Adam took my German I exam--I mean, he took it along with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  gained by staying in the US, and it's going to be interesting to bring that ... , and if you can't be patriotic on Memorial Day, when *can* you be ... . That's about all the backstory you need. Also, nice to meet you!) You

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text ... the tongue. A vowel can be classified as high, middle, or low, and it can be classified as front or back. It can also be central. The best way

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... for the pain, and I'll be able to sleep at night pain-free. After the ... 'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go "WHAT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously ... with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  to be an LA for the next semester, and landed the job.[total time ... As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019