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• Blog / Uncategorized

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  holiday season, and I'm coming in hot, live from my bed watching Frozen instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... off. There's no way Santa can afford to take time to go to Boston in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  sit in an empty Zoom room for thirty minutes; during this time, I sent several emails, bumping the founders ("Hey! I'm in the Zoom." "Hey! Let me ... the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  I've met in MIT. It feels like I can match them one-to-one: this ... I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in ... Francisco. Well, I lived in Manila, as much as I've lived in Boston and San

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  confident enough in them to defend them to the world. I can’t go on forever ... from time to time.) I’m hoping that this blog and website can serve as a ... Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  at all. I can only work in a field directly related to my major. For ... . Plus, I had to pay $620 in summer tuition. After graduation, we can then ... mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  scallion aspic. The full recipe can be found on the MINCE website. I cook ... . As I grappled with changes in my career and my personal life, I used ... ’ve found is to try appreciating the tiny moments in my daily life that I have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  upstairs. In some ways this is exactly what I predicted a startup would be; in other ways, it’s better.  I’ve been just over a week in this city ... . Now it’s half-full with the work-appropriate clothes I couldn’t fit in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... 150, which is true – but i can only really push into the 150-160wpm ... these calculations in my head) for the entire 25 minutes, i’ll have about

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  they might be in a few days, or weeks, or months. I can delay apartment ... A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  Raymond's website and you can find the original post here. Part 1 ... were pretty hard to come by in Boston so Raymond ended up buying one off ... Back in January 2021, my boyfriend Raymond realized he was bored

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know ... Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... institutional behavior. Many of the best jobs held by leaders in the field, will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  website. I was most interested in the crown that they use as a logo, but ... the "MIT I.D. sponsor team" in the website's goals page. He then talks ... topic. CJ: I see these pictures on the website, and they all show "MIT" in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with ... of bohemian rhapsody. after that, i lost interest in vinyls. not

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are ... to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... beyond in order to qualify for most schools. I’ll give you that. The ... about. Then, it can potentially veer away from the idea of fit and tilt in

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I ... home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  .  For context, I can comment on just how quickly one project in particular ... write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... in and day out. extremely smart? again, i wouldn’t object, but i ... ways (except parenting, which i currently have no interest in). but right

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022