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  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  calendar of movies I watched in my freshman fall and IAP Cami: Another ... Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang ... thread about the first AI model, Shudu, who often gets hired in place of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... ’m disappointed in myself. It’s a familiar feeling. That sensation when you ... hours a day, day in, day out. She was passionate about school. She had

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like "kuya reggie" or "kuya john dave". and people in lower years called me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... much in that position.  But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... creative individuals interested in an education centered on science and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... only if] true" and "i can only count to 3" and "i haven't seen you in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do. Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what you'll hear in the next few hours. Your mental and emotional health are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  in my life right now, other than finals week and Celeste. Celeste is the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends ... climb walls, but she has limited stamina. Madeline can dash once in one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best ... vaguely in order of decreasing personal importance: Physics. I’m taking ... , but I’m pretty sure that I want to major in it. Computer science

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... ! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  . The Fall Career Fair happened in September, and I didn’t really actively ... first-years, dropped off my resume in several places, and filled out interest forms. But mostly I just collected free stuff. Later in the year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in mind, he did what anyone in his position would do: he spent hours on You

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... between being unhappy with and uninterested in your classes and just being

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  ="1000"] Badminton[/caption] The Glass Palace in the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore was used to host flower shows in the 19th century ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Part of the President's House in New Delhi[/caption] The

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high ... seniors in high school. I am now a rising senior in college. It's crazy how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019