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  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  home. I was worried about the academic rigor that was to come. I didn’t ... professors, thank you for seeing the potential I sometimes didn't see in myself ... thing in our lives, that we don’t let ourselves fully sit in the present

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  next day. For the most part, I don't look back on old entries ... state. I don't think I could have envisioned that 1000 days ago. In ... to do on top of the internship I'm doing, although I don't plan on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I ... , I won't say I’ve been at the gym or learning a new hobby. I'll say

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I ... — insurance, real estate, professional services that people who didn’t always ... and customer service chat bots, for example. Some robots don’t need

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  7k can't remember.) As expected, here's the bands I listened to. A lot ... Disco - Best album is Vices and Virtues, don't even argue with me on this ... couldn't get over how beautiful she was. And how I was...attracted to her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  this first week. I haven’t left my room except to get my second COVID ... water fountain.[/annotation]In spite of it all, the sense hasn’t faded. I ... call wasn’t long, but our conversations reinforced why I’d attached all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... -of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that ... to heaven that i'll ever be and i don't want to go home right now i

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  and watch boats sail by. Also, in my experience, it hasn't been crowded ... area is amazing to run/bike through. Weirdly enough, I didn't know about ... that I've made up for that. Honorable mentions that don't really count

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  ...my experience living here for the summer only proves that I didn't take advantage ... from. It's located up in East Cambridge, which isn't too far of a walk from my apartment, but dining in isn't an option at the moment. The food

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  right now."]But I couldn't bring myself to write that post today ... several ways to interpret this word, and I mean each of them; I don't remember talking to anyone who wasn't at least a little surprised at the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  from faculty, some of whom we knew and some of whom we didn't, expressing ... we didn't write down here, is a great sense of camaraderie and support ... continuing/evolving/expanding community for the arts. MIT didn't provide the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  we aren't coming back until the fall, by this upcoming Tuesday, March ... can and can't take home, other people are stressed about going home ... don't mean to speak for every single student and I'm sure that, as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  and set-up had all led up to a two-hour performance, and i really didn’t ... overenthusiastic audience, who screamed over us so loudly that we couldn’t hear our ... with its other showings, so…   i wasn’t really in the mood to work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  . tl;dr i wasn't *super* looking forward to this IAP. but HOLY crap ... , so i won't talk about it much more here. basically i'm just chugging ... this a lot last semester, but i really didn't see ANY of my friends at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i didn’t blog! at all!!   now, as i reflect on the past month ... semester i'm from 45 minutes away and i can’t go home once? i attribute it ... don’t have many close friends from high school. in a state of loneliness

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  feeling like their Spotify Wrapped didn't represent them in some way. The ... listened to the most songs from. I'm sure the data itself isn't wrong. But as ... objectivity isn't always 'the Truth' with a capital T. But anyways, let's get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  and we had't bought hamburger patties for our BBQ yet. After showing that kind of dedication, you can't not go to something you've spent ... 's always new surprises. 3. Who Doesn't Like Fostering New Connections Of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  think that many of our students aren't confined by convention and are ... controlling the process, that they weren't able to let go. Perhaps they went to ... accomplishments). More importantly, if you haven't caught on already, the advice I

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  most significant challenge you’ve faced or something important that didn’t ... friend you hadn't spoken to in awhile had asked the question, not a college ... friends can't see you in your words, how can we?). Good luck, and happy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self ... internships and got some much-less-fancy rejection emails. (Which wasn't too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019