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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  plan and stuff because i sure as hell don't. the build leads have been ... .i can't talk about it too much because spoilers, of course. the hunt is ... . things probably aren't as complicated as they were last year. but esp

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like ... . WHYYYYYYYY. Ok salty rant is over. I don't totally hate IAP, it's just that ... turns out the best way to write is to, I don't know, just write? So this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  , in the morning. Except that I won’t see it in the morning light ... [they didn’t end up finding anything], I spent well over an hour of my two ... . And I'm still upset that I didn't get to fully enjoy being in a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  , I could have looked for alternative housing so that I wouldn't spend ... -control of my life again. If I took leave, I wouldn't have to wait for MIT ... aligned well with my own goals; I didn't want to just take leave and do

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  /No Record didn't magically make us stop trying, surprisingly"]psets and exams ... ' reassurance and my own empathy for the difficulty in finding balance didn't ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn't

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  part of me that I wouldn't actively think about writing about it, but ... straight up didn't have time for anime at MIT!!! I didn't watch a single ... friends again, I can't help but reconsider anime's presence in my life. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  semester, we don't have time to make any recipes we watch, so when we watch a ... recipe we made of hers, and it surprisingly and sadly didn't turn out that ... than with her recipe. We didn't have all the necessary Korean ingredients

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  ' bout how we gon' kill the Earth. We can't kill the Earth. We goin' kill ... his reply, I didn't really quite know what to think. As I mentioned ... looking at the 3-D printing tag in MIT News, we see that 3D-printing isn't a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  -years take"]8.01 [/annotation] tutoring, but I haven’t even looked at the Pset ... ANOTHER call, this time from my best friend back home. I know I don’t have ... going to lie: I’m failing pretty badly. Still, I can’t stop smiling. The

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  . unfortunately, i don't have my own car here, but also want to see places around ... east coast doesn't hold a candle to the west coast in terms of japanese ... marina del rey, so we bit the bullet and took an uber because we didn't

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ? Definitely not me - I decided to write this post right after I decided I wasn’t ... words, I don’t have to spend that much time outside of class on homework ... status early), which basically means that if I do bad in the class, it won’t

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  until my eyes fell on the word “nanotechnology”. At the time I wasn’t very ... that makes pointy Killer T-cells using RhoGTPases to adjust actin.” (Lol that specific idea was called “drill T-cells”) I would take these ideas

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... ’, using soft factors like tone of voice and body language. But it doesn’t ... magnitude of that respect--I didn’t really expect to lightly socialize or even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  walk around taking 48 units. This doesn't cover everyone, though, and ... cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the ... for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write ... Manhattan Chinatown. Things haven't changed that much, right? :) I actually ... 99.99% sure we aren't applying to any Boston residency programs. It

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... aren't the most important part of your application. Letters of ... was worried that I COULDN'T achieve depth, that I purposefully busied

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you haven't seen the pixels on your screen that would indicate that you are ... me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp ... happy, healthy family that hasn’t been affected by cancer. The kids I meet ... called cancer and that it was bad. It wasn’t until some of my high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it ... didn't delete it, though. I let it sit in my inbox and stare up at me ... would be, but pointed out that that wasn't a reason to not do it. Since he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , mailing lists haven't been in vogue since before Nick Carter was but a ... drive, and I'd planned on driving it until I couldn't drive it any more ... diagnosis wasn't good. The brakes were shot, yes - as was the clutch, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010