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• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson I have a car. I had some daring plans to go hiking every other day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  call to adventure [caption id="" align="alignright" width="500 ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union, and How to Stay Private on the Internet, the list goes on and on.  MG

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

    6.006(6.1210): Introduction to Algorithms  21W.771: Advanced Poetry ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... this semester, so I have to take the seminar"]Undergraduate Teaching

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... were going to meet along Mass Ave. I arrived at Mass Ave shortly before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

   Let's get right to it. What went into making this year's Pi ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working ... turned out, I didn’t need to because I was recently assigned to join the Pi

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here. The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a fun exercise, I decided to go back to my freshman year bio and annotate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the ... ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... functions. There was no way to sort or filter the contents aside from doing so ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester ... with the world differently than I used to. Things I used to enjoy kinda suck (like sitting on a beach all day). Things that used to suck are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  classes, i've ended up reducing the problems to mathematical manipulations ... (gender and media studies), for which i got to write a final paper about the cosmetics brand Glossier. the paper is here. protip: if you want to stop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  , I’m just so glad, happy, elated, delighted to be here with people I’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ... some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the mountaintop were those who would travel to Brazil to study insects ... Berlin, Germany, and now am back at MIT to start a Ph.D. in Applied

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  their professors as they try to strike it rich at blackjack by counting ... received a full scholarship worth more than $52,000 to attend MIT next year ... -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  call the other and put the phone on loudspeaker to spread the joy ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... then we headed back to our rooms. As we crossed Sixth Street the angelic

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008