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Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT
for the life of me I could not get it unlocked. I shoved the key in the
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[joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das
Co-written by Rima Das and Amber Velez Amber: One unique characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with… -
Blog / Summer
solace in the self it's me! cami!
among the ups and downs of my life. But things have been busy. In the ... one of the coolest and unique opportunities of my life. It's a lot ... independent life. I've tried so many new things in SF, but also have found joy -
Blog / How to Food
[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3
grappled with changes in my personal life that led me to question my reason ... Nuova (The New Life).[/annotation] And in one of his hands it seemed that ... , and controlled decay that is my new life, I dream of dinner parties and -
Blog / Advice
On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…
spread through to my fingertips. Just how much of my life had spread ... and asked what was going on in my life. I told her the bullet points. I ... this has been affecting more parts of my life than I realized. It -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston
a fast food chain, it is a way of life for Bostonians (They take their -
Blog / MIT Life
Touching grass scenes of spring
Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I’m flattered for something I’ve written to get 211 upvotes, and I’m sad that I can’t… -
Blog / IAP
bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something
winter break is nice and all, especially when it runs over into iap and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i’m getting kinda bored. so… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play
people some important lesson about life. In some sense, this is a result ... live my life avoiding conflict at all costs, which hardly lends itself to -
Blog / Miscellaneous
today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become
somebody else will take care of my life. iii. This is my theory about age -
Blog / Challenges
bday burnout no more spiders please
nearly scared the life out of her. She was up psetting, apparently, and ... with my 8.02 mentor (who's great by the way, she's saved my life so many -
Blog / Uncategorized
And tomorrow brings a new day
rejection in your life by no means defines your worth or value. I hope you -
Blog / Challenges
[Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23
Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without dying Peel a strawberry Bake… -
Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]
Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab
I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab -
Blog / Classes
Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy
thermodynamics. You may know Ted Chiang from Story of Your Life, which was adapted ... call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I ... life and, as a corollary, the means by which life will one day end -
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some small distractions to help with many weighty things
inviting (and so open to you losing several weeks of your life to them -
Blog / Extracurriculars
MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester
about other stuff, like being a CS major at MIT or even just college life ... 's all we really want in life. Conclusion CodeIt was...the best decision I -
Blog / Uncategorized
Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week
kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college -
Blog / Challenges
Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe
doing. "So how's life on-campus, Vincent? Did the food get better since I -
Blog / Admissions
There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients
My entire professional life has revolved around education and college admissions. Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition from an entirely paper-based process (featuring typed or hand