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  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  hairdressers happily babbling about mundane (but riveting) gossip and some 2000’s ... ’m actually a little reckless with my hair, all things considered. It’s been ... catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine-day hike around Kerry. This is also my only stop, as it’s the only hostel ... there’s a charity event for it. Folk come from all over the world. He

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I think my suckiness at Smash is interesting because it’s probably not ... probably will be for a while. It’s easy to interpret that as lazy. And maybe it is - I’m not sure that it’s necessarily the most disciplined

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... love hearing people’s conversations. Before you @ me for eavesdropping

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  from roads and sidewalks, and are about 5 feet wide, so there’s space for ... objects here, they just lock the back tire to the frame. It’s a little ... away from home. Sometimes it’s [annotation note = "well… warm anyway

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was ... “distance” between two words. Word lists and data come from Google’s corpus of newspaper articles. There’s fun linear algebra and NLP and linguistics things

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... , two of my sisters shared a room, and my other sister’s room could only ... like growing up in the old house, as we called it, but that’s a different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  flower pressed between pages. Here’s a snapshot of a week: https ... plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele ... a poisoner and an architect’s apprentice. I’m a little nervous about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... after. From her balcony window, I can see the bright lights of the town’s ... . Except it’s not that simple. Some days, I wake up at 8 by some messed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... email filters you make, somehow, emails will flood in like a tsunami. It’s ... was interesting to see directly the amount of outreach that’s been done

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  into a relatively short and sequential summary of a character’s formation ... . I promised myself I wouldn’t look back ever again. It’s so simple ... such a clear "because x then y" format. But it’s also filled with

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  ? So, picture this: you’re running a marathon (a metaphorical one, there’s ... "]real life.[/annotation]Let’s say you’re having a really good semester, whether ... leading up to that point, is like it’s own sprint, too. Life after, the jobs

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  , students have raised concerns about the nature of MIT’s relationship with ... .    The Tech has published numerous articles criticizing MIT’s ties to ... the Institute’s decisions, to ask them: Why we should all be invested

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... similar to MIT’s 8.01/8.02). My mom also made sure I knew all the basic life ... it well! For those of you that don’t know, behind the scenes, there’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  many classes, it’s because I accepted early sophomore standing, which ... that involve a lot of algorithm analysis and proof writing, but it’s also ... can’t see an electron whizzing around in space in E&M), but it’s

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  This past Saturday was CSC’s (Chinese Students Club) Lunar New Year ... -based magician who had previously appeared on Penn and Teller’s show Fool Us. More ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  , of course). But maybe that’s one of the reasons why I choose to walk ... -conscious Krystal that sits on my shoulder sometimes and says, “Hey, here’s a little ... summer is that most places, like MIT’s campus, Newbury Street, Boston

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... “what’s happening this semester” post and explain what’s new for this year ... it’s relaxing is because it’s so focused on clearing your mind of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the ... usually include pasta because that’s what a lot of runners like to eat the ... ?! It’s so fun! A group of us in the Tech Catholic Community made plates

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

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  around and answered questions about student life while Tiffany (who’s ... pretty off topic, so she’s restraining herself from going off on a tangent, awkwardly.” Okay, maybe it’s a little plausible that you’d be thinking exactly

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010