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  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  back on the post, I think its ridiculous. I think it is needlessly ... timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Oh wait. It is literally dozens of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  ASMR cooking videos on YouTube. They're actually a pretty big genre on ... Brothers Marketplace in the evening to stock up on milk and eggs. [caption ... good because i have had a lot of practice on myself. practice on myself

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  th, 2020 Last year, on Saturday, December 19, 2:14 PM CST, I drove to my elementary school parking lot alone. Vienna by Billy Joel was on the ... 't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  who occupy many worlds, loathe womanhood, or find themselves on the ... their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, and alarm clocks fell on their ... truthfully, no matter how vulgar. Ernest Hemingway On Writing, Larry W

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  now, was forever ago. i was standing on the harvard bridge staring into ... were on, but i heard and i felt the wind blowing from behind me, as if it ... on that bridge, blasting music into the silence while the wind pushed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for ... wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my ... ! it’s 10-1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and although classes go by quickly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... have never thought about it before while on a ropes course, I would guess ... spent a weekend with my friends at MakeMIT, a hardware hackathon hosted on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  comment on the players and the game because you can learn a lot in the ... ): Early on, during second semester, I booked my plane ticket home. Being ... got on that plane, I’ll admit it sucked. I felt like I was falling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  mom on my day or finish up a HASS reading. so foreign ah R E S T A U R ... hearty replacements. feast your eyes on this $7 bowl of Yamo House ... of rowing, focused on conquering will rather than body control. It

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  students should be more focused on activities like winning Nobel prizes and ... important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ... appearances. Clearly we aren’t in this for the fame- have you ever flipped on

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally ... : I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets, because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... have to be 18 for that…). Any ideas welcome ^_^. Back on topic, the bike ... anywhere on main campus (even across the street) without stepping a foot

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and ... . Nor have weekly deadlines. Instead, every day, I have new readings on ... major on my floor, and the only sophomore in my department. I don’t take

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  On Saturday we released decisions for Early Action (EA) applicants ... form and then focus on anything other than MIT (other college apps, your ... that the best thing you can do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  , especially since the professor wrote “Yes, it’s ICE” on the top of the board on ... bunker” or “the dungeon,” as she worked on ICE. Each weekly pset built upon ... days, so this will probably be my chance to catch up on sleep and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this ... with web development and better coding practices. On Friday night, I set ... think I might have accidentally become a tea/coffee connoisseur. I was on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... (hang on, I’ll get to that), I decided that was a perfect time to make ... eating uncooked cornmeal if I don’t get some French toast up on this plate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... with the humanities, working on problem sets about the humanities, going ... that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  and Bring It On. Most of the dorms have free movies you can rent from ... bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... veins with IV fluids most of them had better things to do - like go on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz ... : specifically, the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, which was putting on its summer ... friends be absolutely ridiculous on stage. (And the play was free! Can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008