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

  

  into words, I had slowly become someone who wrote with reception in mind ... , to the point where it began to interfere with the pieces I produced. To the point where I wasn’t every fully content with what I was writing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  to fit in all the classes I want to take, at least not in a way where I ... environment, the ability to take classes in [annotation note="where would I be ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I ... together with your friends! You can watch the demo video linked in the ... and I was in the passenger seat trying my best to keep up with how OP

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  itself clocking in at  3-4 Zelda OST, 2-3 Queen Songs The more I thought ... references and important concepts in my life, I found the units that defined my ...         I was making the trek from East

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  preparing it. Tonight I was walking back from the T along the street where the food trucks are usually parked when I began wondering where the food ... listening to "Pop Goes The Weasel" play over and over again? And so I came up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  until eight, I saw someone running outside in a t-shirt. She looked rather ... the little things that I'm pumped about, in no particular order: I ... . This entertains me because in the first month of quarantine, I went

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in ... , unfortunately.  Ukulele: I got a ukelele in the second half of 2020 and really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  on three black circles. in particular, the triangle can look even ... things i've been doing in the past week. it's truly felt breathless. i ... what things were like back in the day, the next night i'm in a hallway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I ... amazing resources can fix that. I could get all the extensions and that ... in the popular “who’s more hosed” game. And then senior year came. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  git history: As you can see, I started this project in early March ... boards. Play on it here. You can play against the chess engine I wrote as ... flows through his veins. Me? Raymond Tran? I haven't played chess in years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my ... like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I ... deckbuilding roguelike that I've poured over sixty hours into. If you can't tell ... of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the ... aren't the newest thing around but I've never seen one in person before ... came from someone in the audience. I'm not sure of the details but I knew

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

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  that I've come so far, that a personality could change so much in the ... think I've made a lot of steps in the right direction and I'm really proud of where I am. And I've tried to type this sentence out again and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  applications - i.e. in yesterday's lecture, where we discussed the limitations of ... in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in ... buddy and lab partner, so you can see why I'm taking Harvard classes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... —eat rejection for breakfast, I'm sure. For many, rejection can be debilitating ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me ... their food that it’s become deeply engrained in who I am. The other side ... -flopper. No opinion I held was ever set in stone. All it took was a conflicting

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  people, or really any situation where I can’t blend into the crowd.  Hair ... have some experience in. I know my hair, so I can experiment with it. I ... =" seriously, I can't stop fantasizing about a life where work ends at 5PM. If

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  .   To no surprise, I'm not the only person who's experienced this. In ... then talking about something I’ve never heard about in high school Not ... -Schwarz Inequality” is back in high school. I’m not a math wizard like Terence Tao, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022