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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  definitely next on the list. There is a mini-Bible from before college, but I ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing ... , that I didn't find in competitive programming. It's a feeling I felt even ... shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... than pan-fried) but I don't own a deep fryer to check. Collard Greens ... that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I ... Hall but I’m typing it from a fancy but empty apartment in East Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... each other. So like a background character in a movie poster, Harvard was ... only lonely third wheel, I added Stanford. I’m not quite sure what I was

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  completely different from me, in a way I had never experienced before. They ... What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... the sting felt tangible in a way I hadn’t felt in a while. “Why don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a ... tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... , what flies over the bay?" - which I discovered today, before visiting ... in a plug for your having the interview. Last year I posted a blog

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... [annotation note="quote should have been read in a computer-generated male voice ... number won a prize. If I recall correctly, one of the people in the photo

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  ’s a sign of aging, I guess, but I now think that staying all day in the ... 'd rather be in East Campus. Scratch that. I'd rather my room have a sink ... 'm graduating in a semester, and that thought terrifies me, because I don't think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... question: What does MIT value more: diversity, or merit? In its uglier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of ... in March, to just take a moment and think. I remember high school ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... " align="aligncenter" width="400"] a snippet of when I had it in Thailand ... than I did in this dish: 40! Yes, forty. A floormate and I collectively

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... a gap year before they start college, so most know exactly what they ... elusive. I work in a lab in the Soroka Medical Center, which is across the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025