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  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  reading won’t be about why I took a gap year but, instead, what I did on it ... just one sentence, like I did just now, but I feel it still doesn’t do ... posed with the question of what I would do. One piece of media couldn’t

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  pretty uncultured when it came to music though, so I didn’t press any ... be honest, I don’t know enough music theory to articulate the ... could say.  https://open.spotify.com/album/1tChMZYXMGw9AcbxhDFtxB?si=gY5f

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  ? is it? but a second, more skeptic thought going, it can’t be, it can’t ... don’t know if i want to make large claims, i just find that it is ... enjoy seeing the convergence of language (i don’t know if that is a real

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  and hurt myself. It doesn't even seem within reach. I ask a better ... . I tell him I'll fall, and he smiles and tells me I won't. And he was ... what. But these things do matter.And you can't press redo. Without

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  have no friends? What if I hate my job? What if my roommates don't like ... just been set to panic. I'm afraid to graduate. I don't know what this ... I was four years ago and how far I've come. I couldn't have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as a rejection with prolonged pain. What I didn't know is that those 2 ... painted in my head. Your 20 year plan? scrap it. It won't help you. In late

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  immediately. I couldn't go to the market myself since I had something going on ... percentage of people in the lab that don't drive, including my supervisors, and my PI didn't get his license until three or four years ago.) (...I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  are a lot of elements to a residential experience that we don't think ... ? These aspects aren't at the top of my head when I walk into my dorm, walk ... some, but isn't ideal for those looking to join a larger friend group or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  you could get to on the T, therefore saving us from having to pay for a ... enough tricks that I don't have to just practice one particular trick over ... 's called pancake night (because we didn't want to step on the toes of an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  graders did the Harlem Shake, but there weren't any cool songs that came out ... couldn't do it. I think we ended up doing some boring song, proved by the fact that I can't even remember what it was.) I feel like Carly Rae

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

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... ability to respond, and when things don't go according to plan, your ... changed and in some respects, everything changed. So the things that didn't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... pointed MIT out to us, so I knew it was close, but I didn’t know it was that ... . I don’t really like kids, but I’m also a fan of science museums myself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  . From the moment I stepped inside, I knew it wouldn’t be my last. To quote ... vibes. We started with the buttery fish fumet. I didn’t know what a fumet was when we ordered it, so in case you don’t either, here’s the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  I didn't leave the MIT bubble much my freshman year. hell, I barely left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn't ... a few other artists that I really love. I didn't realize that music

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  unfamiliar[/annotation] before learning this song. I performed this with Sai T ... ,[/annotation] I wasn't too familiar with Into the Woods before this semester, but ... things. We also weren't allowed to change what happened in the story based

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  tortillas aren't half bad). I was musing with a friend the other day that ... something inevitably turns out imperfectly, you can't be disappointed, because ... every time I look back, I realize I didn't take exactly the right path

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don't ... definitely aren't as varied. I like to play the same songs on repeat. Like, a ... ) Hamilton the musical I didn't actually eat any kraft easy mac

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  .[annotation note="they're all good books: i don't know why i'm so bad at finishing ... headspace and i close my eyes and want to bawl or scream. but i haven't done ... the name because i don't really live here anymore) on the north coast. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  with my two classes and three jobs. I realize I don't really talk about ... shred me into pieces. I am a fool who doesn't understand physics. It is ... past but have failed/NR'd it. I honestly wouldn't mind taking it, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of this semester, I set some goals/rules/guidelines for myself. I didn't stick to ... dinners I didn't attend, the field hockey games and a cappella concerts

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020