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  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  is best left for another time. [caption id="attachment_55506" align="aligncenter" width="300"] jan Sije, which is how i'd write my name in toki pona, in ... digression, because I don’t really know where else I’d put this. There was a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  . [caption id="attachment_49456" align="aligncenter" width="640"] i don’t have ... . We were taught how to use the three tools to make this: [caption id ... holder[/caption] [caption id="attachment_49458" align="aligncenter" width

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  , and nicked my nails trying to sand things. I'd like to believe that all ... though I'd [annotation note="the summer after my freshman year, i went home ... holding an acrylic rod and checking the holes I'd drilled

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  practicing a language. [caption id="attachment_39938" align ... . [caption id="attachment_39941" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Who knew that ... id="attachment_39942" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] A picture from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  to my dad so I could get a second opinion on what I’d written. The ... it was unintentional, because I’d ingrained expectations from the ... I’d had it hammered into my head by a counselor or a website that I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  , Jeremy already knew the answer. [caption id="attachment_68391" align ... " like an MIT publication. [caption id="attachment_68397" align ... id="attachment_68413" align="aligncenter" width="605"] from https

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  I started telling my mom about MechE, how I’d grown with it and how ... tile. In summer it’s blissfully cool, and when the swamp cooler broke I’d ... doing projects for my HASS classes, and twice a week I’d sit down to grind

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  and the vibration of my phone, notifying me of emails I’d trash anyway ... yelling and condescension from angry and entitled customers. [caption id ... Dominican Republic. I’d gotten into the habit of watching Digimon and Teen

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  those medals!"  I'd never run anything longer than a 5k but Chris Peterson ... worried about this race because it was a distance I'd run many times and I knew that I'd be stopping a bunch for character photos.  Unfortunately

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  experiences! so, without further ado, please welcome… Sarah S. ('28) [caption id ... !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ YAY THANK YOU SARAH! next up is… Christine O. ('28) [caption id ... than all the ones i’d previously held, was a routine nonetheless. i think

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  the first architecture I’d ever seen to literally take my breath away ... place I’d been in my entire life. The lake was really big, something like ... -covered dark-stone historicity. “Can we swim?” I said. I’d brought my swim

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... sunlight? [caption id="attachment_92833" align="alignleft" width="226"] me ... grind. [caption id="attachment_92851" align="alignright" width="300

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  wouldn’t completely like, when I could be taking classes that I’d actually ... might call a “lifestyle class.” I’d sleep earlier in order to wake up ... in a MechE classroom. [caption id="attachment_84138" align

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  . Some notes from the road… [caption id="attachment_75560" align ... wore on my second-ever date, back when I was fourteen.  A friend I’d ... places back home. I hadn’t expected to taste that for months. [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... , because to be honest, I’d been feeling weird about UROPing at all. I didn ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  a Scrabble God) (sorry Jen): Distribution of final scores [caption id ... word lengths [caption id="attachment_54705" align="aligncenter" width ... number of letters used per turn [caption id="attachment_54706" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  kicked off. [caption id="attachment_47339" align="alignnone" width="2016 ... chose to ignore), I’m expecting something akin to this: [caption id ... City is halved. I’d originally planned on stashing my suitcase in parcel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  .  [caption id="attachment_44316" align="aligncenter" width="805"] the songs i listened to the most for the last month[/caption]   [caption id ... the last month[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_44314" align

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  even composed my first blog post on its screen. [caption id ... -cancelling headphones that I'd gotten from a summer internship would not connect to my ... summer, I reached a breaking point. I'd spent the summer working with a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  with my ID. Luckily I had my license and they printed me another boarding ... , and that's when I realized that, along with my boarding pass and ID, I ... already because they mailed it back to my house (along with my ID, which is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008