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• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other ... particularly interesting struggle. It’s not a heartbreak immortalized in song

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  , and what blind spots might be embedded in my studies as a math and ... and I might write more about them in a later post. If I were being ... of kinship: yes, Wang is the most common surname in the world, but it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  hallmates in the lounges, the ec rush playlist blasting in the courtyard ... in hmart by michelle zauner, detransition, baby by torrey peters, stone ... in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  What the title says. [caption id="attachment_77399" align="aligncenter" width="356"] in my notes for 18.01a (single-variable calculus), specifically about the normal distribution[/caption] [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... instrumental in designing and building and maintaining almost every aspect of our civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and ... , likely still in my clothes from the day. I'm also around people more often

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful ... and film-makers. Mama's Boy is for those raised in the South, are ... piece of literature in my life. Howl is for those who aimlessly take the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a ... bad hand". the chorus has been stuck in my head for the last few days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  the Trader Joe's lovers out there, you are in for some good news! The ... three weeks or so.  We'd go late in the evenings when the crowd wasn ... . There are so many fun varieties in the dessert aisle from the usual ice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  split us all up - funny things are mostly only funny when they're said in ... emails in my inbox that were sent to this mailing list and pick out some of ... in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  , baby, sweetie, baobei/宝贝 (baby/treasure in chinese), stinky, bendan ... whenever i cry in front of her she kinda just looks at me like ...you good ... . She also really likes to lie in the sun, which I do as well, so when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite ... 't like very much, so I dropped it in the second week and didn't even log a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the ... was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... and pay application fees, for many schools and not just one, in but just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  that is happening in the philippines too, even now. and yeah, sure, i ... its own indigenous people just feels weird. in other news, i am overdue ... as in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, so this year i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  in on her with this sort of cock-eyed, confused look.   She didn ... to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class ... my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up ... minutes long, and I won’t take offense if you skip around or watch it in ... are some corrections: 01:27 There are in fact 578 student groups

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020