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  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... anyway. Sometimes even doing it well. It’s my addiction, every semester

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... in the publishing industry, and writing one’s unique experience in ... painter, finding none. I thought of The Last Five Years. The ending of Katz’s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s ... entirely finished but we are finished, and it’s enough to scrape an A. I live ... , and struggle until it’s done, and maybe sometimes it’ll get done well. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  was worse — because it’s always getting worse, because writing on an i ... , potentially, because of the added strain from lifting weights.  That’s been ... worse. If the former is true, I might well push through a set; if it’s the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  Day video team. Almost instantly, my mind went back to Angela’s bread ... "]next meeting[/annotation] Angela explained that the Studio Ghibli film, Howl’s ... junior and currently serves as the president of MIT’s Music Production

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... Classical Mechanics Study for the biology and chemistry ASE’s Go out into ... quickly gave up on the ASE’s, figuring I would be better off just taking the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest ... -up poem. after the symphony’s final note  What I remember most about those ... scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  my parent’s home computer, effectively dashing my chances to continue on in my pursuit. I doodled in a sketchbook here and there, but it’s ... 't actually color like this anymore[/caption] Well, what’s changed now? Why am

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

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  remembered as one of PS4's best. It's so big, in fact, that they're breaking up ... BOOM), I did not go all out. But now that I’ve been accepted, there’s no ... FANTASY SEVEN. To most people, it’s a classic Japanese role-playing game

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  It’s been four days since the beginning of sophomore year. That means ... ,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet ... better option clearly exists. And that’s what I did. I took a leap of faith

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There’s ... , holding eye surgery clinics, and organizing major relief trips in the U.S ... towards clinical volunteering. There’s so much I want to say about the state

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  it so that it looked like a starry sky. Here’s a before-after picture - I think we did a pretty good job! That’s the story behind my door ... .” - Henry S. ‘18   “I love my door!! It has existed at least 7 years

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  program for Yaoi on Fire, the fire spinning club’s summer and fall semester ... was in it!! 11) Chroma’s second edition, which we were both staff on ... .... nope not at all… blog about this to come... 17) Rune’s 38th edition

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  center of Quebec’s old town, but really it was more like a small apartment ... currently celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, that there had been a big parade ... performers strum until the strings on his bow snapped while the bar’s patrons

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  !) and also terrified (there’s 800 million freshmen and they are all 800 ... and this terrified in a humanities class. It’s essentially the ... , these burn boxes are sent to Professor Slocum’s farm. To be burned. At his

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin ... perspective in Mechanical Engineering, it’s at least not been quite so obvious

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However ... -shirts to books and toys. Clothing. This one’s the most challenging decision ... , you will have approximately 0 hours to actually do it. Nice things. It’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  around the room, highlighting each person’s strength. Everyone had great ... , condemning the play’s lack of intersectionality and outdated references. I won ... the event and the lollipops go every year to the local Cambridge Women’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  this post, but what’s included here is simply an obsessive analysis of my ... too early makes me hungrier the rest of the day, and there’s no point in forcing my metabolism to start up before it’s ready. Lunch or dinner

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  Lobster Incident, my friends, begins with Young Krystal’s fascination with ... really is just for the fun of it. But it’s a great opportunity to ... most out of CPW. While it certainly is a weekend to have fun, it’s also a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014