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• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  University of Cambridge. And yes, none of these were really rejections to be ... , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... literally the hardest experience of my MIT career, and how I dealt very poorly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  adapting the story, because the comic universe and the show universe are ... I'm gonna be honest: I've written and deleted and re-written and ... deep of a topic. "Just write about your favorite shows and stuff, Mel," I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

    It’s (well, it was, at the time of writing) IAP, and all the ... Bad Ideas Weekend, which includes things like running up and down the ... !!! Joy made juggling balls that embodied pain, fear, and frostbite. We also

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I ... , two Final Fantasy 7 novellas, and I Am A Cat by Natsume Souseki. The only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  , such as the institutional memories of clubs and organizations on campus ... moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination with the hubbub of CP✱, this year's iteration of CPW, and my general

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very ... numbers, I took CJ's Sporcle quiz! And I...didn't do too hot. I totally ... at the [annotation note="and therefore missed my last chance to take

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  traditionalist and as one of the "universal synthesists." Using the French Suite No ... , grew up with a classical music-loving mother, and now live with a classical music-loving group. My neighbors are members of concert choir and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  and present a new kind of medicine. I have no recollection what my ... , with a pencil and markers and tape and scissors - it was a masterpiece. I proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , crawled under my blanket, and waited for around 30-minutes, willing the ... , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... how starry the sky could be, and how blue. It’s almost ridiculously

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first-year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  We’re already a month into the semester, and [annotation note ... semester-ly schedules, or really talked about my major at all, and that maybe I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don ... passage to sit in a classroom after school with a dozen other kids and watch a bunch of scary car crash videos. This will heighten your anxiety and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  and history, and institutional relations. rencomm members have reached ... renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  called the "externship" program. i did an externship last IAP, and you can ... digital publication working on real, creative stuff, and since my micro ... MIT. I've kept up with people and even found time to do some additional

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  spent Western Blotting at midnight*, sleeping till noon, and hauling my ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... 't graduate if you don't know how they work ;) ) - and now I'm sitting here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless. it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... neighborhood, and the sun is starting to set, casting a golden glow over the well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  that state. My computer desktop - I never look at it, and so it just ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about ... Internet? What   things on the Internet help you feel more happy and less

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  to. He believes it’s symbolic of how busy the Institute is, and ... MIT campus is defined and elevated by its people, and for this blogpost ... think in many ways reflects his individuality and personality, and is a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a ... (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth ... started one. And it translated to school, too--my middle school English

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and sophomore year I worked in the Aerospace Controls Labratory (ACL) and ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006