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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not ... difficulty for that to actually matter. also, i think shadows is the best ... overwhelming for the amount of experience either of us had. i think i played

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn ... than i’d expected to, largely because the learning curve for beginners is ... pad for a sustained amount of time) [caption id="attachment_89535

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... for dessert. And let me tell you: that slaps. Thank you Brennan Lee

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... -M (a communications intensive class for my major in major), and for ... -- diligently professing my case for why I am taking these classes, I'm left

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  open stores and the outdoors; this is mostly true for adults as well ... ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... of other answers out there. for example, if you asked me three years

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  Bridge finalist. My friend, was accepted. I was so happy for him, but I was also ... to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... . But really, for me the institute has been great in this regard. I hardly

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don ... feel bad for no reason, so maybe I won't ask a question in a class group

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after ... up for games. i've been getting burnt out by many things, these days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  ="attachment_79209" align="alignnone" width="239"] the theme for this dinner was ... in the house. (For any potential employers reading this, I personally ... for a year and a half spent elsewhere due to the pandemic. For a long

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was ... cat. PUF also has impressively large lungs for a relatively small cat

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  after I'd started dating my ex, Chris, who I was also together with for ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice ... for me to do than befriending older people), but then taking time away

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for ... problems with inventing new meanings for words: you end up with associations ... . be careful about the language you create for yourself). i assumed that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless ... the functionality of the piece itself. For example, appealing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and ... onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  in for the month of August, but wasn't sure if it was worth the move ... . Raymond, being the optimist that he is, came up with some solutions for our ... for the day, we took a quick run to Target and bought all our kitchen

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college ... the set as some sort of bucket list for places to visit. I bought the ... NYC bookstores, a couple of days before leaving to Russia for the fall

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  , "Well, it's made for me" The kid who’s ready to figure out who they are ... -guessing their decision to go far away from home for college.   tolerate it I wait by the door like I'm just a kid Use my best colors for your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that ... are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020