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  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  removed and the path forward will be cleared.  The future is in all of our ... happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... through. So here's what this past year has looked like in a snapshot: 1) Started the year off in India, surrounded by family. 2) Did my very first

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... . Drive any direction out of downtown Seattle, and in 3 hours or less you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  from rejections. It became clear in those sombre moments that what I had ... that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... experience still smoulders in the mind. Here goes: Breathe. Don

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  So here we are. I'm sitting in the AeroAstro Gelb Lab ... . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be working an internship in Seattle. It hasn't exactly settled in yet that I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  the Midwest or whatever. If I cleared one of the smaller minefields in ... parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I ... -secret military agent whose patriotic duty was to sit in front of a CRT monitor and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  completely bore you with the details of my trip I will compose them in haiku. Drove down Saturday, hung out with my family at Mom's house in Philly On Sunday I held the Philly central meeting in Fort Washington On Monday

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  quickly and derisking ideas rapidly being organized and clear in one ... Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  buzzing in my head has subsided. And the sky is so clear that, for a moment ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... your experiences/thoughts in nature. Throughout the course, we read a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  perfectly clear in my head that I both wanted and needed to go back to the ... . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... ordered from McMaster-Carr, Adafruit, etc. Buy a physical textbook ... Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in ... sophomores that prepares us for success in the workplace.  Throughout the year, we have obtained guidance, support, and training in our internship

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don't mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... endeavors have included sitting in on Senior Lecturer Anna Kohler ... exhibit. We went to Litchballett (literally, ‘light ballet’ in

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  secondary stresses go. In Tagalog, however, it's not clear whether ... standardized version of Tagalog is Filipino, which in theory includes vocabulary from other Philippine languages, but in practice is more like a synonym

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their ... equation describing a particle in a gravitational field"]a Schrödinger

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields ... to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012