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Blog / People & Identities
am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings
same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through ... oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~
this sticker as part of the (in)famous "how to make (almost) anything ... being able to express those realms of myself on the back of my laptop in ... , that I strive to live up to, Especially, "She is clothed in strength and -
Blog / Challenges
i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress
rest, I was completely back to normal. The issue is that I'm behind in ... back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.
iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to ... of the major VCs in the country," she says. "One guy said to me, 'That -
Blog / Uncategorized
places around and at mit godless and holy
I've been to. But also when it's 70 people cramped down in the ... really hits when you go at 12 in the morning. we go to the one near harvard ... 's difficult to compile footage all together and i'm really trying my best. but -
Blog / People & Identities
BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence
shaped or for sharks??? )? Come to Blahaj FAC tomorrow at 5 pm in Talbot ... [/caption] But how did this shark plush get so popular? Blahaj’s rise to ... introduced by Ikea, the Korall Fisk, to a picture taken in 2006. Then in 2008 -
Blog / Admissions
Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.
in and said, in the most innocent voice, "Hi, yeah...we want to go to ... it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... 're writing your essays, you don't want to be generic. You have to keep in mind -
Blog / Admissions
California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road
a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to ... we pick which schools to visit on any given trip lies in that strange ... , which has a new digital media magnet program open to all students in LAUSD -
Blog / Blog Projects
Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for
finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... student thing to do." This is the best compliment I've received in the past ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you -
Blog / Academics & Research
I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos
outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too
A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type. It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church" (thanks, Wikipedia) - but it's two words. Which means that you get weird -
Blog / Summer
five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York
“Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... in, but in August, asymmetric tank tops with thin straps started to -
Blog / MIT Life
Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.
adults in black belts. So, parents, you don't need to worry anymore about sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired ... and I fell over in shock. The ninja police did nothing to rescue me -
Blog / Life after MIT
Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving
. I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and ... The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write ... only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about -
Blog / MIT Life
Spring Break Good times all around.
career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... way to the 2012 Livestrong Assembly, held in Austin, Texas. As co -
Blog / Internships & Externships
soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers
've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... . CJ: Mhm. Anna: It just feels like… I'm locked in to this choice, you -
Blog / Challenges
uncertainty becoming a boring adult
college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts -
Blog / Advice
an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history
get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men
-lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... fraternities, sororities and Independent Living Groups tried to get the MIT