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• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  school? and the dreaded what are you doing in sf? or if it's that kind of ... title of the event was "sf party" and the description of the event said it ... with friends. i had a particular idea of what parties could look like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street ... game changers, y'all. i've spent a lot of time biking through the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  oversubscribed), so instead I'm taking four classes, of which only one is likely to ... , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  of boxes on top of my chest of drawers, and two full suitcases + three ... the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... gradient across the parsec scales of our globular cluster, then it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles ... some sort of [annotation note="i watched lady bird (2017) a few days ... . highly recommend."]cliche coming of age movie.[/annotation] It really is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty ... ) CMS.621 Fans and Fan Culture (Ed Schiappa) My favorite class of all ... semester to do so. But this is a great class. Honestly one of the hardest

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  of tissue, then move that to the recipient's hole[/caption] needless ... intensity of that week. i'm taking a step back and realizing that it was ... easy for me to go into lab and spend all of my time there to run away

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  responsibilities the privilege of being associated with a prestigious school brings ... the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy, high-powered individual helming one of the biggest cryptocurrency

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  years, dozens of students representing MIT's nine acapella groups will ... feeling was that I was not good enough, and, at a school where I already ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  . I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... . Summers between school years have always been inherently weird, liminal ... Toronto, on a corporate laptop overnighted to my house. Because of security

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

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday.  If you ... limited to her professional responsibilities. If you were the partner of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most frequently used examples of this is restrooms. A transgender woman can’t be ... ://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/Senate/S2407. It’s super short. In November, the people of

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... ’ve been procrastinating). That is, until I found an exhaustive list of quotes from the lovely captain of the lightweight women’s crew team, Sharon

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... melts during the day except in the shadow of the house. I call my ... valleys. Mornings are foggy; nights are cold. On the 4th of July you can

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  Hello Interwebz! Our campus is swarming with high school students ... some of you, and we Bloggers also met each other--most of our interaction ... of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  This school year was pretty terrible.  I don't think there is an ... campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn ... love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking habits, suppressed middle school memories of having my roller backpack ... you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013