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• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  , honor me.   Do you remember in spring how your body wasn’t your ... desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... ; I feel like I have not run in days like I haven’t slept I feel like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... yet unwritten, the ending not set in stone. I left with two characters midway through an escape, lost in the hidden tunnels of a palace

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  In the spring, I bought a polaroid, walked around campus, and took pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of ... . But in an attempt to eschew the "nerdy girl" stereotype for Devi, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... truth in the matter was that I didn't really hate compsci, I just found it ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to ... am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... . in honor of this re-realization, i decided to document all of the fun

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  Summer guest post series* A few dozen children stand fidgeting in lines before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There ... instinctively stop you in your tracks because it doesn’t make sense for that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book ... to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  People often ask me what admissions officers do in the summer. They ... applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... vigorous vacations. In fact, I'm nominally on vacation right this minute, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  real-feel temperature with wind chill factored in at the time was -22 ... claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  . James' books on "Living the Simple Life" by involving your kids in ... complimented me on the firm handshake I learned in Chapter 4. And then suddenly ... along in their individual worlds of chaos and delusion like everyone else

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the ... that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the ... things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto [of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... post on a happy note, in actuality, the relief of spring break only ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my ... where I spent my days eating Steak n’ Shake and fishing in the lake by our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  so that they are not as large. Put the sweet potatoes in a casserole dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for ... cooking wine Soy sauce Waffles (optional) Steps: In the morning

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words.  I never thought I’d be performing ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... . Somewhere in that scrapbook in the kitchen closet there's a newspaper clipping

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now ... in the beginning, whether you want to admit it or not. Some people are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008