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• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  put up on classroom walls? They always summer, fall, winter, and spring ... ’s orchestra room door had a textbook version of these posters for their concert ... started opening up. I could see hints of pink. Then white. Then the petals

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  all my friends. We need ten minutes’ notice to meet up for dinner, or a ... October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... morning, I woke up at 10:00 am. I changed clothes, and brushed my teeth, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  MIT. I've kept up with people and even found time to do some additional ... , unwilling to give up its secrets. Frustrated by the lack of cooperation from ... i'll omit for now."]trusty Spotify playlist.[/annotation] The walks

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  it since it's for 3-6 players. But we made up our own game: each player ... "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... cheese cubes and prepared for the feature presentation. Alright, so Kate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... someone who actually knows you. for the same reasons, I’m also more cautious ... ’t intend this post as advice for younger students, but I do want to put out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy whiteboard that: has marks or stains from heavy usage for a long time ... that hadn't been erased for at least two years — now, it works just fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking ... famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  ™️(missed)   More times than I would like to admit, I woke up for a lecture ... newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  , but this semester I picked up the helm of co-music director (MD) for ... finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  that comes up. there are so many people who are cheering for you. you ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... 've mellowed out, in a sense -- the furious emotional ups and downs of my late

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  students at MIT, I’m not at home for this Thanksgiving. I won’t be eating my ... importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  the world of Splash if I had shown up for the teacher training, but I ... "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... website or came up with a good research idea or resolved a mental health ... still important decisions up ahead, and some of the options will lead to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  -flopping between various class schedules for the spring, and I haven’t made up my ... is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage ... mathematical surfaces. A cabled LOTR sweater my mom knit for me, as evidence of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  up as a pencil on the Entries page it was probably red-flagged by half ... bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... changes as needed. Ok, so, now onto content. For the last week

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to start the essay. Of course, it's different for everyone. But I found that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... internship during the daytime hours. I was writing embedded code for hardware ... , softening. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the suburbs, but I’ve always felt

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... Downtown Boston. It was indeed a gorgeous view. After picking up my rings — I ended up going with a gold and an Ultrium companion, not an easy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  for Early Action because the post office is messed up currently. I can get the materials postmarked for November first but I am not sure if ... It's time for another Questions Omnibus... Mike wrote (re: MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  and clear things up. Core memory for sure. Anyway, hi everyone, to ... grateful to live in. MIT did a great job of setting me up for success and I ... on in NYC. I am always keeping an eye out for pop-ups (like the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025