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  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my family. Every year, my mom and dad would invite all the Chinese faculty and ... photato,' based on my dad's phonetic spelling one year, which my sister and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  ="Yes, weekly. My family had an annual pass since we lived close to Anaheim and it was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my ... ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  1. Go home My last final ended at 12pm on a particularly ominous Wednesday. I say ominous because I had just slogged my way through three other ... cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  ...great. When I found out my final exam score, my brain immediately switched into "problem? there's a problem? WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?" mode. My neurons fired ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  I declared my major. I declared my major. I declared my major. *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the ... declaring your major at the end of the year. My impression is that joining a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  very flexible with your teacher recommendations. The MyMIT Tracking is up ... to worry at this time about documents that are not showing on MyMIT; we ... early to MIT without attaching a research abstract. However, my research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my ... ordering chronologically, but that feels too linear, and let me tell y’all my ... non-linearly and every one of my blog posts will probably be written in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  clarification. 1) If my document has some LaTeX mathematical symbols, it is not accepted in the space online. Can I send it my e-mail? If yes, where and in what format? 2) If my document conatins pictures etc, I ask the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  accidentally used up almost all my data for the month downloading audiobooks, so I can't really use my phone for anything other than playing said

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  ."]useless statistics,[/annotation] I am naturally the friend that will always send you my top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  For my (maybe?) last blog post, I felt that it was only fitting to write some notes for the people that have made my MIT experience ... . emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing ... my friends fade away from campus as i say final goodbyes because i am

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  on and so forth. I feel like I'm doing that with my time here at MIT ... through my time at the 'tute. Two years down, and two more to go. Since then, another year has passed, and I have another one to go. Oh my god time is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... wondering what the weather machine is, you should read my CPW history post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  my return to MIT after taking leave this past fall. I’ve been thinking ... , so I'll save my leave for another blog and instead focus this one on my ... its embrace. I can’t seem to find better wording to describe my current

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  my understanding of his motive after binge-reading Wikipedia plot ... certainly don’t want to ascribe morality to my emotions. Anyway, it’s Thanksgiving, and here is some of what I am thankful for: my mother, my father

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  first is I’m three days away from my first day at my [annotation note ... curious if I still had access to things from my old job. Because you ... in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  's something that followed me throughout my freshman year, all the way through ... , but my outlook shifted just a little bit, and everything clicked into ... , solidifying these things in my mind took a huge weight off of my shoulders

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my ... ’t even get a chance." Similar thoughts had been floating around my head ... beginning of my senior year, I lost an aunt to cancer. Less than a month ago

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021