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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you ... make yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as its own season, where freshman year was seasons 1 and 2, hence making ... bathroom apartment with Mariia, Raymond, and Emma. We're essentially two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about ... together in the TV Lounge, drink tea and eat snacks, and talk about stuff ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it ... scream past, sometimes five in a week, and my computer, hearing the noise ... ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  times. My normal routine is disrupted, the heat makes me lazy and slow, and I've left behind my past self but haven't yet entered a new one ... been in. (Coming in second would be the one between 8th and 9th grade

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  …[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who ... from the semester. And I was alone. My roommate left the Saturday of finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... "]UROP project[/annotation], but Unity was giving me too many issues and the tablet ... gestating for a while and learn some new things along the way. learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  😤   I approached the stand  $old my self, car, home, and soul To ... handshake A spit shower 🗣 and quick talk This is all I got

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  finals and my leaving...) and I haven't been able to resist snapping some ... the dome decoration is here.) It must have taken a lot of work and it ... read at a bookstore, got vegan thai food and bubble tea, and had a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  in actual huts. It was foggy and when it rained it was absolutely magnificient. Oh and there were lots of baboons too. We drove into the game reserve at sunrise and sunset to experience the animals in their natural

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  energy and attention on training for the US Championships, taking place the third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up ... lead up to the 2018 US Champs crippled my preparation, mentally and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and ... friends graduating early, and who knows when I'll see them next. As we said

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even in the slightest because that will Interrupt My Rhythm and Ruin ... acapella group and basic life necessities such as eating and sleeping. Some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to ... began adding larger chunks and incoherent paragraphs over the past few weeks. And now here we are. Welcome to the Thoughts of Taylor

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... at Harvard Square that is the main shop, and they're even better (imo ... basically only one menu item, which is pork ramen, and they give you a HUGE

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  infinite corridor is total chaos as tourists and students battle for placement in the hall, the dining halls are back up and running, and the ... and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  ’s understandable that there’s a lot on your mind right now, and the last thing we ... of you are still dealing with damage to your homes and schools and ... , and your safety. You will not be penalized in the application process

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017