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Blog / MISTI
COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽
, the biggest music festival in Denmark dedicated to metal. Tickets have been sold out since before the pandemic, but volunteers could get in free ... the first night. While waiting in line, my friend and -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
up, down, and out some moments from the last month
up. In the past month, there have been moments when hope and joy have ... feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the -
Blog / MIT Life
What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…
On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... Dr. Lee pointed out about life in med school was actually that the ... 't MIT prepare students well in the science curriculum? The answer is yes -
Blog / Athletics
How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process
’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... student-athletes interested in MIT or in playing college soccer in general. I’m a senior in college now, meaning I did my recruiting process -
Blog / Challenges
how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away
learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most -
Blog / Classes
How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)
“@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf -
Blog / How to Human
love languages in the little things
, and physical touch--are fine, but love can be found in so many places ... products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... icing. "I wonder if there's a pink food coloring deficit in the world -
Blog / Challenges
MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing
generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it ... myself be bad at things, even if it sucks in the moment. The only -
Blog / Academics & Research
joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool
MIT, won the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially, the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the ... someone who blogs and is very interested in labor economics and methods of -
Blog / How to Human
things that went well reflections on my first semester
course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I -
Blog / MIT Life
musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight
contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they ... toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... make friends, and to participate in class events that wouldn’t come -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl
away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc ... in my hijab? When I found out about Muslim Women’s Day, I immediately ... , because faith is something that is very much within a person. It is in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing
My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network -
Blog / Academics & Research
Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College
The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... , Culture, & Gender in the U.S & Beyond: A Psychological Perspective -
Blog / Admissions
Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*
my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could -
Blog / Life after MIT
Growing Up bringing it back to 2007
one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience -
Blog / Challenges
Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18
Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly -
Blog / MIT Life
It’s 2015! Happy New Year
I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a ... from everything, what with 2015 finally in the horizon, and delve a -
Blog / Life after MIT
Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…
. I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... true. Other blog posts recanting the more mundane remind me that in many