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• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  semesters in which students are encouraged to explore, take a break, do as ... were essentially entirely up in the air at that point, he sent me a ... with him on... some adventure that we'd figure out in the next few weeks

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  you told me you had kittens in your suspicious white van.) I’m sure you ... lose him in my room. He’s just a little baby When I first got the boy ... back, I found him hiding in the corner of my closet. As he slowly got

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  screen or receiving the famed and mysterious silver tube in the mail, I ... tuition at a four-year university is 2-3x what my family makes in a year ... as I could, and hoped that even just one would let me in, and very very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... graduate, with at least 1 in each department along with various other rules ... /how long until I take classes in my major, the first thing I mention is the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  sports teams, and a whopping 25% of students will participate in one during ... Collegiate Athletic Association, which is the organization in the United States in charge of college athletics

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... You Graduate List, in case you find yourself on one evening trying to ... included in the program, but they just wouldn’t receive the free stuff

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few tunes from this song take me back. huddled up in our coats, the last day

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  reason exists in Walker Memorial, right next to East Campus"]the Muddy ... 's, a popular rooftop bar in Harvard Square, to catch up with some friends. on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... put my phone away, the half-centimeter line of screen in the middle

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... contacted by Semantic Machines, which focuses on conversational AI. In fact ... : Welcome to Microsoft In some previous years, the Microsoft micro

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... : boston/cambridge/mit really does feel like home right now because in my mind that's where i'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... like after graduation.  In retrospect, I should have been more proactive

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  ’ll start knowing where things are. There are only so many intersections in ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you're in? Coming back to Valenzuela, my hometown, feels especially painful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... latest in this series, from Nishanth, who wrote me last night with one of ... have actually met in person before (when that was still a thing that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  week. And going for three hour walks at midnight in the middle of the ... kind of control, I began walking in earnest, sometimes seven or ten miles ... ’t exist. By the time I was moving in my friends for the fall semester, the

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a ... consumed more fanfiction in my life than I have non-fanfiction content which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  made some breadsticks rolled around in crushed corn flakes. I eat that ... some apple crumble and pie that’s also left in our free food table ... some croissants from the Dunkin in [annotation note="the woefully

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  -campus visitors, reading your applications, and duking it out with my colleagues in ... with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... ? Some of you may be wondering, what’s the point of visiting in the first

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019