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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... too much on, worried about not getting the opportunity to rest enough ... ’s nice to be on campus. Really nice. But the longer I’m here, the easier it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i ... , sometimes amused by who i used to be, sometimes saddened. whenever i think

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might ... to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be okay. Repeat after me: It's okay to not be okay. There will always be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  school representative to be considered official. This applies for high ... information on how to have your counselor submit your transcript. Please note ... official transcript to be submitted and processed, we will add it to your
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... , there was no possible way for me to pass 6.009 unless I did extremely well on the quiz -- for reference, I got a 0 on last quiz. I began to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... for Future Course 6-9s Memes Individually, "Course 6" refers to ... "Course 9" refers to students studying Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to ... that your past self did, without having to do them again. You can admire ... to be like that now. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re becoming worse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to ... waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VAlYwWWb7kMKZL904QOLv?si=KqyWGhCITIKEXmsToGnK5w https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I wanted to take the time to reflect on what these past four months have meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  finals and my leaving...) and I haven't been able to resist snapping some ... delightful wander around the city. We got back to MIT just as the sun was ... began an adventure to find the highest spot on campus which was both

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  recreating the Monty Hall problem (anybody got two goats to spare?) writing ... classes this past semester. to make matters worse, this class was tedious ... this class that I brought my problem sets to ring delivery. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing where companies set up booths to display the latest gadgets they are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  have to post this anonymously... MIT is hella gay, and lots of cool gay events are happening during CPW! If you want to learn how to be gay@MIT or want to meet some Super Dope gays on campus, consider coming to these

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day 1, and also the sequel to "Sketches from the Fall Semester ... the privilege to interact with the new cool kids on the block. Can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018