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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  " without really having any idea about how to change it, or going to ... " without any regard as to the "how, specifically?" It's the same reason that ... honestly don't really remember how I wrote it—I just know I spent a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  , the deeper that path got. It’s important to learn how to tell yourself ... "Meltdown" about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful, sad, and beautifully sad post, and it immediately resonated with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  enjoying it for maybe fifteen seconds and I’ll be like, aw, how cute, a nice ... ? Well, maybe. I would say that it depends whether or not you consider cats ... jiggling when you poke it (puru puru) and pretty much you can treat him like

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  the beginning, so how could it not all turn out okay? I’m glad to have ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here ... culture is quite important at MIT: you can choose how much you do or don

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... half-asleep. It’s been a while since a movie has kept me up past my internally strict bedtime. It’s been even longer since a movie has lingered

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  . it felt real, attainable.']that’s how the bloggers’ voices made me feel ... /software that’s created and how does that reshape our reality? so i found science ... be dead. no matter where you go, it only takes so long before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  figuring out how to use those… It really wouldn’t be MIT if my room did not ... bottle with a long straw going through it. Hydrate or diedrate folks. The ... has stayed on my wrist so long. I can’t really take it off, and I’m not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  bioengineering major so it might be interesting to revisit biology and see how much ... what it means to be a fan of something and how fan cultures change and ... disappointed in how I did but that just meant it wasn't meant to be! (I actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home ... not happen overnight, and it does not happen to everyone. I'd like to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  [Dear kuya, how are things there? What's up, is it cold there? It's hot ... kuya, it's a song about the singer, and how they're coping with kuya not ... sometimes it feels like i've just left everyone hanging. i don't know how to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  back to you, and it has been a long time (say, two weeks with multiple ... Recommendation forms are available on your MyMIT portal. It is okay if your teacher or counselor does not include the MIT cover sheet with their letter. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  day to write a long, thoughtful, and very personal email about how much ... Chao: Does this guy even go to MIT? Continuously learn, entertain, and ... TV shows I watched that week!   How did you start with You

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  around that…but that's another topic).  It sounds silly, but I feel it does ... resource. Time. is. everything.  How you allocate it will be one of the ... .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... left the room back in the spring. Instead, it looks like how it was when ... problems, then that's a good thing, because it means I'll know how to solve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  syllables. It's cool to look at the opera score, and see the short-long ... short-long word couplings (ex. "in peace," "so much"). And it is very ... stuffed (toy) bear, balancing an ice pack and wincing. But I sucked it up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  very long time. It will be unsurprising to longtime readers, therefore ... sense of, as the Ignatians would put it, does this fill you with joy or ... /framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  want to live a calm life and do a little science while I'm at it. We had been talking about ambition, and how its meaning and importance changes ... I can, and I need to accept that and find a way to make it work long-term.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  and its associated undergraduate major/minor in Science Writing ... to the public understanding of science and technology. It is also ... intellectual. It nicely complements the scientific and technical training that an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  thing that I wanted to happen, did. I have absolutely no idea how well it ... midnight (squee! how excited are you?!), then taking it with me on a week long cruise to the Caribbean. It doesn't get much better than that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  . Don't flat out say X event changed me in Y way. Show how it changed you ... it seems like as long as you pass the tryouts you can play. Just a note ... , especially if you have a leadership role or can speak about how it's changed

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008