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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  cringing about how stupid I look. I started to understand how my theater kid ... offput by this assignment. I didn't know how to feel about, well, being ... all super positive and fun to read. comparing how I felt performing the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  internship; the world would be my oyster. And I was right about those things ... window and let my mind wander. I notice how pretty everything is. Have you ... how your shoes sink into some sand. I’ve been made to feel guilty about

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  sometimes vividly imagined scenes from when I would live the MIT experience ... interviewer requesting face time. I told myself that the interviewer would ... would be within close proximity to the bloggers, who I previously

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home ... ), where I am working in the National Human Genome Research Institute. More ... year ended with a fizzle. I must admit, I love rolling out of bed on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  then selling it, rather than dumping it into their harbor. I saw X3 last night. Here are some thoughts, from an MIT undergrad's perspective: 1. I ... -naked, and get you out. 2. I wonder if acclaimed thespians Kelsey Grammer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  road test. No worries though – I knew how to drive and what all the ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... : Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  to theorize about what you would do in certain situations or how your ... i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  much. When I was a kid, my mom would drive me to the neighbourhood ... library in the building. I would wander down the shelves and pick up ... interesting. I was stunned by how good it was. A novel very much set in North

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  how her mom regularly ships her treats from California and I thought to ... Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... presumably the odds that I would have the same birthday as any random person is ... below the female median marriage age of 25.3. I'm not sure how to figure

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the ... .   Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year ... products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast ... estimate how much time it would take. 1 ... professor who knew how long the homework was going to take, and not I the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... how this happened, but I think it started from Science Olympiad tryouts ... community's amazing, and I got to learn how to write a scientific research

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  would revolve around science and engineering. I’ve definitely found it—I ... ” education I originally thought I would get. I’m very lucky to be able to ... Hi guys! My name is Quynh, and like Connie, I’m a crusty old senior

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  because I realized how far behind I was from everyone else. Now, I get a ... physics are challenging for me. I would rather write an essay than take a ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Report et al, I would suspect that your Midyear Report is in your ... and I do not know if MIT would accept score reports in March! Right ... ...is just....well anyway...) but I was wondering how MIT keeps up on that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  in high school. I was mostly busy studying; I would make excuses to not ... day. I would say that, compared to most people I know, I’m more likely ... people. I definitely would never want someone assigning my roles or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  Ever wonder what a deep fried McChicken would taste like? How about ... attest to just how terrifying delicious re-deep-frying deep-fried food is ... piece.       Both my roommate and I hosted prefroshes, and we both

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  loved to dance, but I wasn’t sure how much dancing I would do when I got ... ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... my energy and excitement into a cohesive format, so I would pretty much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  functioned as a more systemic method to organize how I felt about each option ... thing I’m slowly learning is: Don’t judge a good decision by how the ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014