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  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  't get to walk in 2021 for my SB, I did get to walk in 2023 for my SM ... on who you ask. Since April 2023, Percy has gone from [annotation note="to ... 2023. After finishing my master's thesis, I wanted to focus on controls

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging

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

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... 's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  headway to get ready for the 2023s who were entering that fall, the only ... were delayed to summer 2023, primarily due to supply chain and logistic ... : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  future-you, with present-you straining to connect those selves together ... applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  together in a world trying to pull us apart. Hold these things close to you ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to class, I talk to my friends, I do work, I head home, I sleep. Next day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... more about hacking itself than individual hacks. I'd like to write one of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was ... , and together, we told the story to everyone else we talked to. We talked ... Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  all of SHASS together. -the hackers The hack is to be preserved in the ... while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT ... displayed here have made to both MIT and their fields. However, we disagree

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  over the MIT community coming together for one reason: to tell you that ... These past few weeks haven't been easy. I've had to stay up really ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  to realize that Southerners stick together if at all possible. If you ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015