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  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class ... , and villains waiting for heroes to finish their monologues? I'm halfway ... clever, I suppose, so the chief picked me for College and I figured – why

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am ... ."]them.[/annotation] So, because this is fun for me and may end you with a book rec or two ... son’s, and you can feel the difference between them. His narration feels

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  , this song, this song, and this song) 13) Going for a long walk with a ... suggested the brilliant title for this post) 21) Going through Epicurious and ... It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for interviews. We finished the application process and are now waiting ... for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  picked up 7 limes and a half pound of cherries (for a total of just $3!) to ... . Filmed and edited by Winnie.[/caption] While my main purpose for visiting ... . But I still had another two days before I leave for NYC once more. And

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  front of my row. Obviously, I freak out and rang the bell for assistance ... sleep, and then he wakes up again and starts tweaking. So for the entirety ... , he has learned to meow for attention and for food. He will curl up on

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  for burying a highway and putting a park on top of it (gross ... beyond reading an entire book per week and discussing it for 3 hours every ... eye and vocabulary for film. We've watched Amores Perros (Mexico

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  's struggle between being "too Indian" and "not Indian enough," since that's a ... and pasted them together to make this. Not my best work, for sure. so ... the people for their harmony, stalwart nature, and ability to respond to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  &M University-Commerce for middle school students, high school students, and ... letters of recommendation for them for MIT, and I know that they will do well. They both seem to have a genuine hunger for math and science that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  between tEp and the Charles, all chimneyed red-and-gray roofs. The next ... lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  on homework anymore - psets are essential for learning concepts and ... an all-nighter every now and then can be good for the soul. Just not ... sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  and that the place won't be too crowded for me to pick up an application ... for ten movies, and also I was only one falafel away from a free falafel ... , she'll come to your house and kill your dog. For fun. So don't push

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  , though--just a moment between winter and summer--and toward the end, when ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a ... after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT, Wellesley, Harvard, and beyond for the Ballroom Dance Camp, Day 2. "Look ... going on outside of classes and ballroom dancing. For example, slacklining

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  say magic, but we actually had to go through the proof for this and I ... just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to see this weird in-between age bracket that is usually absent from campus

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  chemistry, physics), sign up for extracurricular activities and explore career ... , advisors etc. June between junior and senior year: complete the AMCAS ... and senior year: complete secondary applications for each school that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  really” and asking for clarification on what ambition means. i think that ... drawing a distinction between being ambitious and having an ambition. in ... difference between those who go far and those who do not is some people have a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , 18.01 Calculus I, 24.00 Problems of Philosophy, and 12.00 Mission (or ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  coding pset at MIT and every pset afterwards for three years. It ran my ... compiler, and designed a poster for my first conference on that laptop. I ... five minutes for the form to load fully and then I hit submit and the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  storage is by renting a storage space at U-Haul for the summer and then ... out it's exactly one mile between MacGregor and the U-Haul. So much ... and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018