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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  inevitable that it would take a hit. they also told me that every college must ... joining another college team. from their perspective, the best move for me ... outside the college scene. according to them, the feelings I had about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  "]was;[/annotation] people change, and people especially change over 4 years of college. What ... show come out while i was in college???? that's a bruh moment"]Season 3 ... [annotation note="i actually have not watched much anime in college at all. i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  definitely continue with quiz bowl when I got to college, but I realized that ... really disadvantaged me for college quiz bowl, which is a million times ... want to continue fencing after college, and if coronavirus doesn't cancel

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  you’re already in college or still in high school. Even for just a ... . College application deadlines are fast approaching. MIT Early Action ... really. The stresses of early adulthood—college applications, graduating

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you ... college. (And senior year, we were always talking about college.) When I ... the college I got into. It is none of your business." And then sometimes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... Japanese 10,000 yen note. I’m thrilled to go to a college any “Voltaire ... Feels” by Alexa J. ‘20, and “On being at college” by Fiona M. ‘20. Bonus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  largely of college students--that had created a space for expressing this ... saw a lot of “Things I learned from college” posts from other college ... after freshman year of college that you might think should be included in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  making the final cut. This is not how my college applications went. I was ... to remember who I used to be (SERIOUSLY. TIME. STOP IT.), college is ... parts of that college personality with the Sage And Wise Lessons Of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... phases of my college career: 1. September 2003 (Freshman Year): I had a ... about college life that I had not yet begun to consider. As time went on

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  encourage you to take advanced (AP/IB/college) math & sciences wherever ... report? No. The scores will come to us in bulk from the College Board, and ... automatically take the best scores from the official College Board (or ACT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... upper body tilts by maybe 5 or 10 degrees when i’m trying to walk quickly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  around the diameter for 360 degrees than to use a circle and rotate 180 degrees. But thanks to my Subteam lead’s help, I was able to learn this, and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  we choose to harvest was to some slight degree more morally repugnant ... to possess some degree of moral aptitude, and in so far as moral

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly ... . I had expected something worse, or at the very least, some degree of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , but it was offered with such care that in some way I enjoyed it anyway ... productive conversation with someone whose language I don’t speak, or offer ... . Offering cheese because that was all they had for a vegetarian; eating cheese

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  I ordered two big boxes. As the baker filled the boxes, he offered me ... offered everyone baklava. Then I went back to the office and wrote down the questions and comments everyone had. One of my co-workers, Robin, offered an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  when I had said my piece. I have no line. I will take the job I'm offered ... offer me the pats of condolences and, instead, I'll be pierced by their ... nothing I can offer them. And they will tell me no, no Cami you're plenty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  . When I got the email saying that I had been offered the position, I was ... the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  . I had a full-time return offer expiring within the next week, and ... time to think through my final offer decision. At 11:57pm PST, I [annotation note="More on this in a follow-up post!"]signed my return offer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  television as a whole. I was on the flight back from Boston, after college ... ="93896" image2="93894" image3="93895" /] Imagine pulling up to the college halloween party dressed as Joe Cool, classic college student (explained more

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023