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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  mirror and hurt. Summer ended and I continued to focus on academics. The ... in a long-term committed relationship with a man, I'd... rather other ... fall, I came out to my friends from high school through the long letters

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  students. Alberto was wearing sweatpants, and I had a hat over my incredibly ... Kifle was first placed in Muti and witnessed earlier projects. I could end ... this one hasn’t ended yet. The week that I returned to MIT, I had a phone

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... !"]CPW[/annotation]committee. As a frosh,[annotation note="this was not strictly true, but I did want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  possible, but it would take a greater man than I, or at least one with fewer ... together! One of the best moments was right at the end. I had it all, it ... mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  couldn't deadlift inside unless I wanted to end up in my landlady's living ... This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  summer feels like a highly-anticipated visit during which I remember all ... first time I watched anime by any means. I grew up on Dragon Ball Z and ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  the end I sort of figured out what made me happy and fulfilled and sane ... [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the term. On the other hand, as the end of the term arrived, I was unlucky ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  things that I wanted because X, Y, Z person was why can’t I? Because I’m me ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  begin and end the workday without much natural light. I take comfort from ... the day. Toward the end of graduate school, I learned that early ... I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  display it on the LCD. After asking for some help from Jay, I ended up ... and adding in the little z's. Then, I started to try and come up with a ... class alone, probably more than I did in my entire senior year of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -year housing. I did so with full acknowledgement that I might end up disliking it. In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad ... get the bid. In the end however, I ended up not initiating. One

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  beautiful. I am from the desert and I fucking love trees. I met a man in ... love Cellini’s Perseus, holding Medusa’s head high, which I did not know ... most glorious meals. I temporarily went vegetarian. Then -- end of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ended up at Braintree at 9:03 AM. I have never been so happy to see any ... talked about food. Alan: Food! I had saved a red cookie for the end of the ... , a backstory— CJ: So some way or another I read about Kevin L. ‘19

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school ... did I persist when things seemed impossibly hard? Was high school even ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... , that at the end of the day I didn't win one, so I was not as smart as my ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was ... end of the ceremony, I got to stand up and take a bow - and was awarded ... by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  the matter is, when I was in high school, MIT sounded like the most fun ... Computer Science (course 18-C) After graduating from MIT I ended up in ... Graduation The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  or so was an ideation stage. I proposed several things, but the most ... up to see above crowds at concerts. Everyone laughed when I talked ... uses sonar; and a line-following laser cutter. I worked with three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023