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  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the ... , Darwin’s, where I am now, and work and have a cookie. Today I sat down to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... least I was in good company. The next morning, I felt oddly sympathetic ... A. I think this calls for additional punctuation marks!!! In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but ... 's limited to 100 students in a lottery. So, we'll see if I can do it. I ... since you can declare yourself "undesignated." I've done a lot of thinking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  to make us hate each other. I hope that everyone in America can ... confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go ... , and there's nothing I can do..." An email was sent out this morning

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  . Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological engineering and neuroscience and double minor in history and music and I was ... time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate ... think that I have no idea where I'll be after next year. I should try to enjoy this stage of life while I can - when I really don't know what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  where I built in dedicated time for healthier behaviors—like setting aside ... compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... my makeshift home office can be found. Hello routine, my old friend I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  from where I first called home, in Inman Square as opposed to Kendall. I ... of my last few months here can be spent walking down the halls where I ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... 't change the fact that there is only so much effort i can pour into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  more and more about my own freshman year - in particular, the choices I ... other Greek men, I have a great deal of pride in not only my own ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In ... class in the morning. I am not one of those people. My name is Keri

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  things: where you come from, and what your interests are. So, where am I ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... ‘au Crater Boys and Iz, and learning to boogie board. But I lived in North

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  myself I was starring in. And for the most part, I would argue these ... everything in between.   In Barbie, it’s unknown where the Kens go when ... a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... friend^2s and friend^3s were there, so I felt like I wouldn't fit in. Plus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  research. I am a UROP in the Sheng laboratory, where I've worked since the ... keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  of being in the intellectual and geographical center of where the ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  not. Oops.) - I finished my last MIT classes, I ate my last meal in the Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not ... never seen a movie involving time travel that I did not like. I can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013