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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... made oats in the same pan, and was about to do the chicken, too, when I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing ... in mind.   doing more stuff Everyone I’ve met at MIT has an ... play, I started adding fun to responsibility. I’ve turned in most of my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a ... . [annotation note="some people in Radio Society are probably immortal"]Back in ye olde

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... taken as a comment made in bad faith, especially among older Filipinos. An ... factor is that, despite taba in Tagalog meaning the same as the English fat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked ... because it only charged my phone up to 31% after being plugged in all day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... I called my mother. "Mom," I said, panicking. "There are bugs in our ... cautiously cracked it open again, there were no moths in sight. And that was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... direct differences in the types of contributions made by the Microsoft ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation note = "the lawn in front of the big dome"]Killian Court

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... was going to fare in college. Being slightly socially awkward and ... to fit in with. Coming to MIT, though, proved me completely wrong. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... out resulting in being kicked out or disowned or worse.  My coming out was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... have after you click ok: Zoom in and out using ctrl+ - and ctrl ... toolbars might be in different places- I don't remember where everything is

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... , activities, awards) - we will use your QuestBridge application for that. In the ... am taking my tests in November or December. Am I still eligible for the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different ... before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... !") but we squeezed and "sorry! excuse me!"d our way in. Flipping through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the bright, motivated doctors in the world have never taken serious time off ... .   The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus institutions are both collaborators and competitors: the former, in the sense ... latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... , we all use them in slightly different ways. For example, one colleague

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... lowering carbon levels in the atmosphere with carbon sequestration and by ... the bathroom and saw my left eye glaring at me in all its bloodshot

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  so I could stand around the track in the athletic center for several ... capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009