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  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I ... Spanish) so my GPA doesn't really mean much. Get a summer internship ... other books (I reread the Percy Jackson series every year), but that wasn't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  . "I'm afraid of failure," I say. Well, yes, they reply, we know. "I can't ... class, but I didn't. So it's okay. "How are you feeling about it?" What do ... forked by the opponent's knight. I didn't see it; I was too busy paying

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  's really revitalized my excitement about the world. 18.02 I'll admit I haven't ... . I tried really hard in the beginning of the class, but didn't quite ... , I don't really have many thoughts on 18.02 The class has recitation

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  dearly, I didn’t want to repeat this over the summer.  So, I made ... he knows what will happen. The show doesn’t have a really fast pace, so ... ; A: I’m keeping the initials for consistency, but if you haven’t read

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  Where have I been? I haven't blogged since February 3. A lot has happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven't ... some more substantial posts, and hopefully I won't be too precious about

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  have stayed with me through rougher periods in my life. I can't really ... note="and watched youtube videos of the ones i couldn't"]I could get my ... SKDJFKSLJLKWJWLEK For those of you who don't: basically, the company that made Final

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  decisions about what you're going to do after you leave. You haven't been ... .'"]childhood.[/annotation] There's usually food in the house, laundry doesn't cost $2.50, and I can ... physicality, the lack of instant gratification. You don't know what the picture

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  were happening on campus. Didn’t see any of my friends hanging out in the lounges. Didn’t have any psets to work on. None of my friends were free to ... the line growing behind him, and then I don’t see him any more. I head

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

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  pretty cool for a few reasons: IAP feels longer since we don't have to ... don't blacklist me Mr. Corporation! I need a job!"]I don't want to have ... CI-M that isn't 7.18. What is CI-M? What is 7.18? Every [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  met I would likely not ever see again. But I didn't want that to stop me ... registered with the Swiss authorities successfully, didn't get kicked out of ... that run our lives? I don't want to obsess over results, but rather on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... each poem was written to. I didn't manage to write for every single ... "roasted," "chicken," and "whale" didn't come to me so easily :P I always

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  even imagine. The solemn looks that you can’t prepare for. The looks that instinctively stop you in your tracks because it doesn’t make sense for that ... 9-to-5 that I couldn’t quite put a finger on until my first day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  worry came in not finding anything to do back home. I didn’t exactly want ... the state. I wasn’t going to “waste a summer” after all! Deep breaths ... own. And even more often, experiments don’t work until the hundredth

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  different platforms where the blogs were shared. The blogs aren't going away ... friends even if they don't get in). Speak with clarity about the values and aspirations that we hold as an institution. Here's what we don't want to do: be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  two awesome-est menors. I don’t plan to take it off anytime soon. Vag ... audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out ... , condemning the play’s lack of intersectionality and outdated references. I won’t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  War. Even a T-Rex would cower in fear. All Day Shield Painting and ... prepared the slides, and you won't be prepared (This event will occur in the ... tattoo! A temporary one of course – but your folks don't have to know that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  speeds and create all sorts of exotic particles. Those new particles don't ... interjected. "Wait, what? Doesn't everyone want to find this particle?" The ... DON'T find the Higgs, however, then that's interesting: something is

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... can’t help but be impressed all over again. This is the sight that ... -ish T-shirts that you’ve hoarded from career fair, borrow someone else

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  never ended. I can't say what happened, but it was unfortunate. And no ... you are. You remind yourself that you aren't amidst a tragedy, that you ... the day in a haze. Couldn't focus on anything. Got half a problem set

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  major isn't for everyone and please don't feel like you're an inferior ... . And because I like biology, but don't necessarily want to work in a ... (which the MIT Admissions blogs really doesn't need to know) and finishing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014