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ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES
bloggers are hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything)! Well, an Ask Us Anything. If ... ) minor from South Africa. Some fun facts about me: I am left ... about touching a black hole :) ask me about majoring in math -
Blog / Rural and Small-Town
[Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'
students impressed me; this was such a new environment, and for many this was ... history of the area. This was a highlight of the weekend for me because I ... . Having a student spend the weekend with me meant that we had plenty of time -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones
have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding ... chapter left such a deep impression on me that, five years later, when I ... convinced me forever of the power of a well-crafted personal essay. It’s not -
Blog / Advice
tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping
offering me so much opportunity. How dare I feel like this is all too much? I ... problems, not on struggling to figure out what the class expects me to know ... break me. … I love the challenge. In high school, I often had to push -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!
organic, inspiring me to recreate this pattern as LEDs on a printed circuit ... allow me to make all the mistakes that a beginner PCB designer would and ... manufacturer to solder many of the components for me. Five copies of my board -
Blog / Challenges
branches was it easy to let go?
's disturbing to me how painless it feels to be saying goodbye. two games i have ... imagine mit as the singer and me as the listener. the verse describes the ... offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>
formal training inspires me to experiment and take more risks, which I ... improvisational activity was new to me, but pretty fun once I stopped internally ... messing up is commonplace and accepted. it took only two classes for me to -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going
enjoy it as much as I do! It has hit me that I have officially ... ’s hitting me that this is the halfway point now, and some of these new college ... knocked me over with a giant box of bananas as I stood there, frozen in the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau
what is to come to me as it just so happens I was and the in the items in ... revealed something larger about me I don't know but I thought you would know ... everything distracting me from it. I was old now, and that's what old people do -
Blog / Challenges
unicorns big confusion
mean is that people often tell me that i’m doing great or that they believe in me, but i have no idea why on earth they would think those things ... friends told me: it’s cool that you’ve explored so many different areas. you -
Blog / Challenges
residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive
-onian mechanics (hosted by me, a twerking workshop) harry potter fanfiction (historical event, hosted by me, exactly what it sounds like) no more table ... people (historical event, hosted by me, i refuse to explain this) hot -
Blog / Prepare for MIT
Leavetaking and homecoming
are coming back to me, and I’m rushing to write them all down, knowing I ... same red-striped Mexican blanket my dad bought me when I moved out. I’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things -
Blog / Personal Travel
i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no
almost as many new things as last year's, honestly. this kinda makes me ... summer for me. which is once again distressing, because i am again surrounded by many people who are better than me at math in their own ways, and -
Blog / Academics & Research
what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected
them. What really has stuck with me is a (small) amount of confidence ... friends to think about it with me. Moreover, I know that when I face ... checking in on me, worried I was under too much stress. I almost laughed. I -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
who cares about poetry? lots of feelings
morning. I am from leafy bamboo clusters swaying above me Tall and slender ... grade) had convinced me that poetry had rules: the line breaks and stanzas ... classical violin that drew me in; arpeggios that sang of forever, gilded -
Blog / Classes
the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG
participate in a discussion for me. But for STEM classes, there are often very ... beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of ... start to freshman fall. My thought process was that MIT was gonna hit me -
Blog / People & Identities
Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection
mentor from my fellowship challenged me to reach out to someone in my ... to her face, so I agreed. She gave me some names that I could reach out ... topics. Pushing myself to do this gave me a lot of confidence to reach out -
Blog / Challenges
uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song
lightness of being. two prefrosh got my book. they emailed me within the past week to let me know that they received it. i’m looking forward to ... ? a friend linked the listing to me, so i applied, had an interview, and -
Blog / Challenges
101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out
decisions for me and suddenly I miss the innocence my parents had wrapped me ... ? Will people even want me? What am I gonna paint my room/how am I gonna decorate my room? Does this person like me (the person can be referring to