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  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  and seniors) submit their resumes and get all dressed up for the affair ... ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading up north. Interestingly enough, the family friend that we were staying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  , which she had picked up from obsessively scouring the internet for all ... architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  district in the city, i’d read up on that area’s developmental history until ... was never cleaned up properly, how the government tried to relocate chinatown to free up valuable land near downtown but stopped because they were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  end that I wouldn’t sign up for anything similar again. I send a ... not raging against the machine, exactly, staying up late to write this ... my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  amount of Overleaf formatting can obviate the need for deleting content you ... finals to study for, i spent my time doing absolutely jack all with my ... official last day of classes for everyone, i went to see the movie Jujutsu

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  working all by yourself, you can work on it for a whole day and end up with ... for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the ... students into steel (see last week's post for even more fire metaphors

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  those who make up campus are no longer physically present. One night in ... you to parse through the poorly-developed Wikipedia pages I linked for ... of toxic relationship with linguistics. For example, I did a UROP in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of ... have to be accepting of who I once was as much as who I am. I signed up

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  effort for something that didn't end up looking too great. I mean, I had to ... that you're doing for fun. It sounds really silly, but… it's pretty easy ... excuse for spending seven hours the other day listening and recording and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... incredible experiences of my life and I cannot WAIT for the next one. [caption

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... because I left them on read for too long last week, or perhaps something ... else. Variable weather calls for variable coping mechanisms (especially

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  . Ha. Ha. I took 18.06 (Linear Algebra) for about 2 weeks(?) before I ... ;   I was happy for at least a moment. At this point, I started scrambling for another arts/humanties class to take. I emailed at least 3

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  's largest arts festivals, filling up a street in Davis Square for a whole day ... blogged about events for book lovers, summer in Boston, places in downtown ... Squirrel Girl and Adventure Time comics, and he signed a copy of his book for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  Somehow this semester I ended up taking all project-based classes ... and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my group's 6.S08 final project   Classwork for all my courses: 6.S08

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  -so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me. It's almost like I hadn ... .042 (Math for Computer Science) is a really interesting class. I guess the closest synonym for it is discrete math: topics include proofs, cardinality

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  . Something feels different for me—among the usual buzz of activity, reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... fair happenings. But I’m not going this year. Tomorrow I’m off for an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  (IOI) is the world's preeminent programming competition for high school ... all. However, they can be great experiences for the right sort of ... they so choose. While I was there independently, for Anglophonic reasons

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... homework once every two weeks for each class), ate fancy three-course meals ... Potter (Cliche, I know...). Although leaving MIT for even a semester seemed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  Dear Pass/No Record*, I’m breaking up with you. But don’t worry, it ... fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  have so many resources here for people who feel overworked or ill.  Piper ... way to prepare myself for eventually getting my EMT certification.  Anna ... year for help with any problems. 3) MIT Medical MIT Medical is right on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012