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• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  a bad idea. Most of me viscerally cringes at the idea of doing another ... semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my ... particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  can't always have all the information! Sometimes you're at the point of ... to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... with a table of contents Open strong and generate excitement by giving a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this ... . being at mit has helped me come out of my shell more than anything. i'm so ... , since my parents are overseas and i'm in boston, so most of these old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior ... month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a ... of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  : Dream of the Red Chamber (at Harvard). Dream of the Red Chamber, or 红楼梦 ... I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  things (I remember seeing the display at the beginning of the semester and ... enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day ... "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  at the bottom of the spreadsheet called "Mailing Labels." This is a ... You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  flurry of confetti at any given moment. Gosh, this is so cheesy I could ... piece of art that changes every time you look at it. I wonder about the ... blog tab of the school website, not even bothering to look at other tabs

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  size of a printer, except that unlike my printer at home, they do what ... opened my backpack, pursing my lips at the sound of the zipper. A friend I ... campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... most of the day, at home only to change, shower, eat, sleep.  # I didn ... left Tucson the first time, I wanted to linger. At the start of my road

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  me of my rough days at [annotation note= "Student Support Services"] S ... pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  being bad at. I had no vocal training, no guitar lessons, a few years of ... short to not at least try, and whether or not it’s any good I’m proud of ... ; whenever you have a moment of free time, you're sitting there, jangling

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  cells to help with that. I shudder at the complexity within all of us ... , my friends will got on boats off the coast of Alaska, work at JPL, CERN ... . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... , after all, some time away from the internet might be healthy right? At

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  at all costs. The basic algorithm that resulted in the election of ... , resurfacing under the guise of progress. At this very moment, police ... conference is happening all weekend. check out the livestream at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I ... ,”  my coworker coos, recounting his afterwork escapades between sips of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  some guys tend to just fling themselves at MIT (I imagine this kind of ... figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so between our two entries you'll get either ALL of what he says or half of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to ... the ease of wellness when the fall term comes around, but I know I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  . At the end of each week we were all handed blank notecards that we were ... through my entries and by looking at frequency of posting and tone of entry ... five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014