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  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  I go outside and trudge through snow or suffer in freezing cold, when ... wrong was when I woke up and saw light streaming in from my window ... it that time of year already? What was going wrong with me? I went

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  in what was hopefully a significant way to a really cool and useful ... . Being at MIT is like living in a bubble, but it is definitely a bubble I ... everywhere!), and relax a little before diving back into classwork. I’m looking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today ... applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read ... tools needed for when I read (along with a highlighter, a staple remover

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...

  

  may be, before you press that button. In order to help logistically prepare yourself, I recommend you practice logging in now so you don’t run into any ... don’t want to be. Until then, I hope you try to immerse yourself in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 9, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  unpleasant in my opinion. this might be a sign that i should try different ... i spent a while researching symptoms and trying to understand what was ... anyway, in response to all this i am doing a few things differently to take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... . There's a twist: the gift should poke fun (in a harmless, friendly way) at ... pillow + cover out in Walounge before leaving for winter break, but I had

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... firmly in the back of my throat -- out, I finally came up with a simple ... plan in retrospect, but in the moment, I remember how I didn’t know what

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  Actually read books! Ones I hadn't read before! Coded for fun, in languages ... kinds of joy, some of which I had long forgotten in the depths of a ... . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful ... entirely in Chinese. i have a mediocre translation if you want one ... 's performance of a violin concerto—a violin concerto for which I played in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  aren't the newest thing around but I've never seen one in person before ... program, I spend a lot of time there. It's a research facility that ... . Good enough view? Not for me either. So I got a closer one. Its a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in mind, he did what anyone in his position would do: he spent hours on You

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  Established Welding Mentor, so I shadowed her for a few sessions before running ... done in an hour. Depending on what people are making, I demonstrate the ... electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its...artistic...nature. Right. In other news, I chose a major! It's an awesome choice that doesn ... . The truth is that I never REALLY knew what I wanted to major in. I knew

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  'm qualified to be here because I am a black man in America, and that does not ... exists to get people in a circle? I believe in the power of human ... the other variables, like class. A lot of what I was mistaking for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that ... in the commons     I also definitely made a trip back to ... I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of ... . (Actually, I should say that it's really uncommon not to do that.) There

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  ), or, in our case, a living group (Conner 2!). Now, I've played three ... times in its first run, so I figure I've already got a little advantage ... If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... tell me what the bug in the upper right corner is (and how much of a bad ... our tent. I finally found the perpetrator: an old man in a yellow rain

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number ... just a little bit; still can't get over how exotic edamame sounds. I ... then I found one. One morning before calculus lecture, I power

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010