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• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... 't living in the house at the time, but there were about four WILG members living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  strengths in conversations are listening and asking questions, but when people ... to theorize about what you would do in certain situations or how your ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three stories tall, which overlooked the REX events. It’s in the way we dress

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  world works in mysterious ways. Throughout this past year, I’ve blogged a ... while in a pandemic. Among all that, I feel like haven’t spent enough time ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  , sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion ... Society of the Spectacle.' (1967) Unless otherwise credited in-image, all ... .][/annotation] [caption id="attachment_65325" align="aligncenter" width="768"] 1. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  -credit class through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Here's a photo of me in ... up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... experience in 18.100A, Real Analysis, but didn't enjoy 18.06, Linear Algebra

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end ... realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put up a post every day from today until Friday, totaling 7 days in honor

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  and a mf pandemic??? ANYways. as i've talked about in previous posts ... . living in a dorm last year was wonderful because I could have all sorts of ... in the downstairs fridge, which prompted all of us to start sorting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I ... 't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of ... halfway through junior year, in January 2019. On average, it tells me that I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  did not read them all in the hours between 12 am and 3 -- feeling ... against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... volunteer to work on someone's farm, hostel, airbnb, or house, and in exchange ... 't mention anywhere in their bio that they were completely off-grid -- which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... turn it in ten minutes before it was due. Like...where is the middle

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  transfer students who aspire to enter MIT in 2021."]coming application cycle ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline ... week, the ACT announced disruptions as well. In my last post, I affirmed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called ... admissions officer on duty. If you emailed, [annotation note="In fact, she sent ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall ... , even in the middle of the day. There wasn’t any classes, or square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  here with you, talking with you, and existing in the same virtual space ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019