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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  , some of my old journals (if I could tell my high-school self one thing ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my train of thought. Finishing it now. Pretend you are reading this on ... -Cyberespionage -Deaths of Mathematicians -Cetacean Mechanics Stuff You Haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears organically in the form of a hobby, or perhaps an inspiring book. Others may ... living up to another’s expectations. No matter the means of inspiration

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed ... disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh ... Jewish New Year and Eid ul-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. Pictures

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  of school) and this is what it looks like: >> Essay due Tuesday ... After a lot of searching, I’ve discovered a video on YouTube that is ... you, and then they give you all sorts of free stuff as they prepare you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  blood of the Institute. Without the people, this school would just be four ... So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective ... topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in biology, and eat lots of free food and stay in free hotels and fly using

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all-nighter," so I'm figure pretty well on my way there. Of course, I think one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... me. – Felix"]new crop of bloggers.[/annotation] As I was combing ... note="more like sporadic brain dump of sounds but follow me on Spotify

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first ... was a new experience which led to a lot of frustration and more ... cringe for unknown reasons."] RPG[/annotation] in which you play as one of

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on ... championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  of popcorn into the reusable bag. As I pay, he asks me what school I go ... a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find them relatable or interesting. But when I expressed this worry to one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though I’d never stayed up later than 4 am during school years. I had eleven ... abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little about life outside of their parents' houses. Everything from how to clean ... totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  ’t think of better advice. I don’t blame them, certainly, they were just ... details, caveats, and qualifications. I like taking a little bit of this and ... ”--because they never tell you how to do any of that, and though the sentiments

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  't think of anithing But Nasa! So I Dicided to mak a book about Dinosaurs! So I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... ignore terrible advice. I've gotten a lot of what makes MIT hard

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022