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Blog / Challenges
Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable
was, so I can't quite give myself 100% on this. Sidequest 2: Get my ... backup plan, because I really think that I can do more with my skills than ... important to actually gaining 'hard' skills. But I can't see myself as a -
Blog / How to Human
had i known how to save a life on self-care
how to deal with all this guilt. or hi, i think i’m crazy, can i talk to ... empathy. and right now, i don’t feel like i can be that person to others ... , if i could save other people. is it bad if i can’t help when i can -
Blog / MIT Life
sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)
, and one pset fewer than usual so i can pretend for an hour that i'm not ... will have to, because i can't let this happen again. when i look at the ... much I can take on just because I reallllllly want to do a particular -
Blog / Challenges
what’s the word for
dancing in an empty room, so we can shorten the phrase “dance like no one -
Blog / Admissions
quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality
just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it has a good penguin department… -
Blog / Classes
A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,
crisis. Literally. I know it's only freshmen fall, but I can't help but ... social media for as long as I can remember, from my cousin playing Call of ... Weightlifting. No, I can't CAD at all, but I'm willing to learn. It -
Blog / Classes
a gcal september never really used it until now
like going to the gym or running. as you can see... i need to work on -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you
We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 -
Blog / Miscellaneous
my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software
remind me of my SO :) slow dance - slow, cute songs that i can whip out if ... after they had moved onto our hall, and after a conversation that i can ... his neighbor can recognize it in the first few bars of the song), and i -
Blog / Challenges
yeeting classes bye
challenged, but not miserable. but for now, all I can say is: yeet. -
Blog / Residential Life
[guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017
i can usually stave this feeling off and it only manifests itself in the early morning and late at night. i wonder how long i can last before ... can only imagine how he has survived without scurvy for this long). I -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!
can read details about the project here, but let me TL;DR it: basically -
Blog / People & Identities
On Reconnecting spending winter break in India
exhilarating. And because no amount of words can do justice to just how great it -
Blog / Admissions
The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)
anymore. And so you do the two things you can do: listen to the playlist on ... than I can keep up with. It feels like I don't have enough time to get ... can't be planned. Because spontaneity is good. And stepping away from -
Blog / Events
1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute
period abroad, also returning back home can bring about some uncertainty as ... manageable, less overwhelming to start. Of course, you can only fool yourself ... max throttle, trying to connect the dots and synthesize as much as I can -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18
times to go easy on the glitter, but why listen when you can glow, you ... respectability politics. Why can’t I just be respected? I’ve loved watching as our ... can’t we just be respected. I know drag queens who moonlight as field -
Blog / Blog Projects
8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21
interviews (30 interviews in the span of a week and a half can be rough, as is -
Blog / Academics & Research
[Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México
-teacher, Nidhi, and Aracely, our wonderful TA, taught the algorithm that can always -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"
repository of the murals (including ones not featured in this exhibit) can be