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• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ...  (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2023 i3 videos below in case you would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  saved in my phone with various truth and lie options, because I've been ... warm-ups can be helpful in certain situations, and that facilitators of ... -sharing because I'm the only person who knows everyone in the room. So my strategy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... of events are often blessings in disguise. friends joining new groups ... demons. in that moment i realized that i wanted nothing more than for my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other ... particularly interesting struggle. It’s not a heartbreak immortalized in song

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  , and what blind spots might be embedded in my studies as a math and ... and I might write more about them in a later post. If I were being ... of kinship: yes, Wang is the most common surname in the world, but it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  hallmates in the lounges, the ec rush playlist blasting in the courtyard ... in hmart by michelle zauner, detransition, baby by torrey peters, stone ... in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  What the title says. [caption id="attachment_77399" align="aligncenter" width="356"] in my notes for 18.01a (single-variable calculus), specifically about the normal distribution[/caption] [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... instrumental in designing and building and maintaining almost every aspect of our civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and ... , likely still in my clothes from the day. I'm also around people more often

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful ... and film-makers. Mama's Boy is for those raised in the South, are ... piece of literature in my life. Howl is for those who aimlessly take the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  store in Cambridge?[/annotation] To whom will I bestow crocheted gifts ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... .[/annotation] In the end, I think there is more to crochet than stitches. It's a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a ... bad hand". the chorus has been stuck in my head for the last few days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  , baby, sweetie, baobei/宝贝 (baby/treasure in chinese), stinky, bendan ... whenever i cry in front of her she kinda just looks at me like ...you good ... . She also really likes to lie in the sun, which I do as well, so when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite ... 't like very much, so I dropped it in the second week and didn't even log a

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

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the ... was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... and pay application fees, for many schools and not just one, in but just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  that is happening in the philippines too, even now. and yeah, sure, i ... its own indigenous people just feels weird. in other news, i am overdue ... as in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, so this year i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020