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  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  while reading this blog, this isn't entirely true, and I just want to make ... research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their pages and thinking about going to school there. I miss the potential

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

    I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of ... them in even if I wanted to. [annotation note="arguably much shorter

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... as I attempt to navigate the world. I wish I had some hope to impart

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  which stretches seven miles from the Boston Common all the way down to Franklin Park Zoo. Before this semester, I'd only been to the Public Garden ... tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... to the laundry room and then there were no machines available, or I had

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been ... moved all the way across the country, from Southern California to the DC area, to live with my five friends. We moved not for any job

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat ... some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  choose to take condensed classes, conduct research, work on projects, work ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in ... , or to put it another way, a total wuss. I avoid compromising situations

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer what to do step by step, what variables, etc. Then, you learn the syntax

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  : I'm gonna say that Windows Vista is going to look very Mac-ish when it comes to OS, so I plan on just sticking to Windows, far superior. Although ... mean, I think I will end up getting one but I just want to make sure I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Christina wasn't serious, because she goes to MIT and is one hot piece, but other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... crazy! Needless to say, this generated a lot of comments, so I decided to ... -up to the hack entry and answer some questions about it if I can. (Plus I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you ... finished watching “My Old Ass”[annotation note="thank you to my roommate

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... like 8-6), and when I got off work I’d walk to the climbing gym or the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could ... and white and blue era, but i’m shuttled back to red every time. i tried to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  rate than adding them to my to-play list. Oops! Trimps Trimps is an ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022