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  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  writing feels quite odd. There have been many swirling thoughts through my ... compartmentalize my thoughts into two pieces. So this blog will focus on the positive ... hopes for doing well during my first semester, but oddly enough, the first

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  part of during my junior year of high school. Now as a college freshman ... just chill with us :) My project idea struck when I was wandering in my ... "]transforms[/annotation] photos into paintings! Such as my lovely cat Mango becoming Starry Night

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... thing. I naively thought that, at MIT, I could make up for my past by ... scream "I've done bad, but I can give good, and this will atone for my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and ... free t-shirt. My current collection: three Splash shirts, two Spark shirts, one HSSP shirt, one Firestorm shirt. This one is my favorite. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me, and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story ... to replicate my favorite cuisines from around the world. That, however

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  Hi! Remember me? It’s only been 14 years since my last MIT Admissions ... -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into a jaded programmer. What happened, you ask? Well, in my senior year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  notion, to recap from my other post, comes the idea that you are who you ... wrong. Like my four months (albeit a short amount of time) of blogging was ... over that year, the spite transformed into passion. I liked writing. My

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include ... into 60s lore and learning about the inception of my favorite music was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social circles. Like most people, Call Me Maybe was my first exposure to Carly Rae

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  ) one of my favorite quotes does not have a discernible origin. “dead ... that’s been on my mind the most lately is the pandemic — after getting sent home during march of my first year at mit, i spent many months at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I ... my most recent post and stop right there. There were good things that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a ... finish one of my 6.009 labs, so I submitted a confession in mostly cap lock ... . I needed to bring back a heavy box of supplies I had taken back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  ? Above is the top two documents on the stack. On the left is my 8 ... was my First-Year Pre-Orientation Program, and we were given several ... my favorite. Here’s some documents from a role-playing game lead by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... classes and the junior core classes. Pretty much [annotation note="my advisor, various course 16 professors, my friends, my parents, MIT men

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during ... ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or ... that time. It didn’t help that I never had Wi-Fi at my house and had to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it ... Spring 2018 abroad, especially because Switzerland and chocolate. My ... was due within the week. I promptly asked my summer UROP supervisor for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... -- when my acceptance packet arrived in the mail. I remember driving ... . I had the unique privilege of creating my own MIT Blog in my freshman

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  unicorns-and-narwhals awesomeness and my ... I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in ... them, so without further ado, here are my last three creations. Friday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T ... , it was weird enough to draw my attention from the cops and look around

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011