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• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... intellectual reader to draw the conclusion themselves." 3. Put song lyrics in the beginning of each section In fanfiction, song lyrics are seen as cringy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... , I answered (in 250 words or less) that [annotation note="i don't think

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  This is my favorite poem. Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space By ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... Gentlemen in Outer Space is that, in my mind, this poem is yellow. Warm yellow

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  highest priority in life right now, I haven’t been doing near as much reflecting as I usually do), and so many things have happened in life that I ... in the past [latex]n[/latex] months. When the 2021s in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college [annotation note ... year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply ... extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  for the first time ever in my 3+ years here. The early ... "]sits on my shoulders[/annotation] is locked in a storage unit in Charlestown, waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  potentially useful item we had in our shop at the Edgerton Center- no matter how ... we met more team members who flew in for the competition. After a few ... small manufacturing problem in our composites cascaded into problem after

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a calculated, slower, reasoning System 2. I feel when I type in this kind of ... backspace quite frequently in search of better grammatical phrasing. I do

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... for a conference I’m presenting at in May. I had two other projects that ... semester doesn’t look like it’s going to be any easier. In fact, I got some

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  aware, the racial tensions in America are currently at an all-time high ... deaths of four hardworking police officers in Dallas, it feels like America ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... surreal weekend. It was my first time in the South, if we don’t count Los

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... —I’m majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry and have spent the last four years doing research in the Saeij lab on parasites and the Gilbert lab on

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... sad about my failures in high school, and I found out there are tons and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday ... taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013