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• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my internship. I finished my internship with Microsoft this past summer and got a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  friends, refreshing some of my math knowledge, incredibly weird technology problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and spend days in my room, sitting alone in nice weather; don't want to have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  My father yells "What you gonna do with your life?" Oh daddy dear ... less than 48 hours to my next 6.006 midterm, I sit here contemplating the ... . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my ... dances became my favorite hobby, and eventually, I started filming videos

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go-to brunch place to catch up with friends. My significant other and I have ... ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general ... doesn't cut it for my social battery anymore, so I make an active effort

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed ... only way I can experience catharsis is by putting my whole self out there

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and ... heading home, seeing as I haven't seen my family since August and my flight home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ."]anime fanfiction[/annotation] memeing my taxes yeah so, this was me @ one of my ... this class that I brought my problem sets to ring delivery. [caption id ... : the two psets stashed in my purse :([/caption] the next day, I dropped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded schedule, pretty much every upperclassman I know (as well as my advisor) told ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , and accepted the fact that in my 12-year long stint as a figure skater ... have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still ... are cool but not viable with my training schedule. Internship

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to ... away, I put my headphones on and I play some Taylor Swift. My go ... shake it off, shake it off, I, I, I…”, I’m bobbing my head and feeling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  much my childhood! I went to all the book premiers and dressed up as a ... completely and totally made my day and my Halloween, and I think is now officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  with my friend Sally M. '16, I spent the next few hours CNC machining two ... bodies. My sandwich lay forgotten until well past noon. How do you know ... finding people who share my passion for design - who see it as so much more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20. This year, my class sizes are roughly 5, 6, 8, 6, and 25. I'm learning ... for my Science Writing class, taking field trips to MIT's Wallace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  I know, long time no see. My last entry was almost exactly four ... matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a night. It was like hitting a huge, much-needed reset button on my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has ... last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012