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• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  reading Brave New World in English 100. I miss the way my teacher would turn ... would. I miss playing in the stands at football and basketball games. I ... that. If I could go back I would spend more time in the parking lot, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper ... could color them digitally. In middle school, I’d saved up money from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  waste of time if they're all full! I'd much rather buy another road in ... I've lived my entire life in Salem, Oregon. I like Oregon, it's clean ... drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  Carroll, Alice In Wonderland I’ve been re-re-re-re-rewriting this post, mostly because introducing myself is way harder than I thought it would be ... the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  restaurant you were expecting eleven and having them spit in your sushi. I ... razors with soap in them already. I'm living in a fraternity in Boston ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  get a B- in 8.01. I have no clue how that happened; I am guessing that ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of failing. I had done ok in the semester, failing or barely passing most tests

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  store that's in a reasonable distance, because that's how suburbs are, I ... logo. This was before we knew that the internship would be in-person. We ... Park. And on the Discord server us interns were in, I looked for others

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  you have to take a GRE? And how was it?" I did, in fact. I took both the ... his makeup off and ramble about how things were at PHS theatre back in ... :00 PM; Athletics Fair in Rockwell Cage, 2:00-4:00 PM (bonus: I'll be in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  I was in for--originally thinking the project would take the rest of ... in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... enlarger. I fancied seeing what an 8x10 negative would look like, but the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  in this dormspam I sent out of desperation: I will pay $15 for an H2GO ... that exclusively does corporate swag, so if I wanted to buy one, I'd have to buy 500. I've also asked several hallmates to let me see if their

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  "]IAP[/annotation], i began to cook™ for myself often. i would buy weekly groceries, make ... ’ shift is the core of the poem. i would like to think that in my villanelle ... ‘warm’ is the core.  i would like to think that i have found home. in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  ? Put it in a category of how much I want it. For ex: "Really want ... create is a self check-in of: would I be willing to put in the work or do I ... every single in-the-moment buy that I didn't end up making. Knowing You

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  [/annotation] agreed that this would be hard, but I really would like to graduate on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... psetting. I am much more productive, attentive in class, and enjoy my morning

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... crosses out items. I guess in this sense, our agendas are more like cousins ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  overloaded sophomore fall, I had told myself that I would never subject myself ... conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised myself, going into junior fall, that I would have to make things better

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... week, on the weekends. Here’s a rough sketch of how I’ve been organizing ... creative. (Ok realistically, half the time I run out of my dorm in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  , which you can find in better resolution at the website I linked above ... was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a ... for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street ... donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... conditioners for the new apartment. Now ask me how much I've studied for my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006