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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  installation of Game of Thrones, but I promised I'd tie back in to Amy Cuddy ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  putting it back down, to clasping both together and stretching above my head ... my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn ... needed to talk to somebody. After the initial shock reaction, the only

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  ) to learn about momentum, or play physics games to reward good classroom ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  fitness in January 2023, so I just had to get from 26.2 miles up to 100 ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... deleted every piece of media I'd ever uploaded to the blogs. The big wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016