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  i hate orthogonality making my furniture diagonal

  

  way until the end of the school year. living in a diagonal room was ... , which had just finished remodeling. unlike last year, i know the names of ... of chalk drawings; the walls are disappointingly straight compared to

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • August 19, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  beginning of the school year, in some dimensions I’m closer to where I want to ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  one character that a Cantonese friend of mine taught me in high school ... graduation and graduate school. This will help me achieve my goal of using my ... I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  school advertisements everywhere. It's ironic because a lot of these signs ... it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  lot during the chaos of the school year, so if you're able to create ... group of friends, I swear! Alternatively, mansplain manipulate man ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and ... small number of high schools that I do each year, I'll often feel a little ... very small number of schools, and that some colleges spend most of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  weeks of IAP was to take as many shifts as I could while a lot of people ... the calendar, I managed to claim 37 hours of shifts over two weeks, working mostly on the 8am-12pm and 12pm-5pm shifts. Being an EMT is one of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... clear cool night, talking about life beneath the stars - a little piece of ... start my second year here on 2E. I really like it here - mainly because of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... , so I slow down. And then I hear it. It’s sort of like a chant: "Hey

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very ... meeting with lots of students and families on these trips!"]High Schools ... driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  mentors and lots of resources to explore many of these areas. In high school ... based on what schools I got into, advice which I also heard from blogs of ... per week. Economics graduate school can also be bad in terms of hours

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  of the day is seeing all the people in western business attire standing ... My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After ... TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... from high school because i am terrified of falling back into ignorance i ... mean is that these are problems many of my friends struggle deeply with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  openings, film screenings… the list goes on! [annotation note="MIT School of ... –and that it has, but it also has so much more. These corners of the school ... schools’ departments) I went to this event (and most of the other ones in

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  science and math classes in high school. I cared deeply about the content of ... TW: Detailed Descriptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault, Brief Mentions of Pedophilia and Disordered Eating   This

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  , because I was super busy during deconstruction and she did most of the work ... Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  is a tad bit lighter: Below is a rundown of my classes this ... technologies. I'm quite out of my element here, but I'm getting a lot of help from the law students. The two of us engineers are trying to pull our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019