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  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  when things don't go as planned? You slip up, you forget a sentence, the projector doesn't work, the power goes out. The key idea is that no matter ... almost work, that barely work, and that don't work. Indents are forgotten

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  If you haven’t seen this year’s pi day announcement video yet, please ... Audrey came up with something good. Audrey: lmao i don't remember if that ... redacted] Audrey: oh wait we probably shouldn't put that on the Internet

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has ... haven't been able to build up strength, but I feel I'll get it by mid next year. Do a handstand - Incomplete. I didn't focus that much on core

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  a hoax and vaccines don’t help, and founders of obscure startups that usually don’t have any revenue or long-term plan, and because i try to give ... paragraph, and ultimately that is not a tradeoff i'm willing to make i don't

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  most close-knit groups of people i’m aware of don’t actually support each ... entire piece reads so much like a meme that i can’t tell if i’m just taking ... become extremely competent to rise to the challenge. i can’t guarantee that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that ... tone. So who knows. Maybe the boys just didn’t like me.  Years ago, I ... he hadn’t stood up for me. But, mostly, it was because I had sat there

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that ... codes. It stood there when my mom was small. I hope the city doesn’t tear ... [annotation note="and a little disappointed, obviously, that I hadn’t met all

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  it, that you can't understand until they happen to you. And then there are some things that, even while they're happening, you can't begin to ... internship when everything went remote, and as such I couldn't leave Canada

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and ... absolutely SLAPS. I didn't use a recipe—I kind of just used Gordon Ramsey ... heat so they don't overcook. I like Ramsey's technique of pushing all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  the ballot box’ since I can’t vote. Even in conversations, I catch ... doesn’t acknowledge that I don’t share the same history as African ... -black people that doesn’t sit right with me. You don’t have to be black to be

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... remember crying to my mom because I felt like I couldn’t connect to my ... most trusted inner-circle made my stomach do flips, and don’t even

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  -down and slacks; I’m wearing a t-shirt and shorts. “Couldn’t be wearing ... the Chinese fishing village he hasn’t seen in thirty years. “It looks ... movie and we’re permanently stuck here.” “That wouldn’t be too bad.” He

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  . Dead phones can't make noises. But a concerned person can. I woke up to someone – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host ... . Who was this person? Why did my friends call them? Why hadn't I woken up to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  . Often, I didn’t really mind because I really liked school and I would also ... majority of high school I couldn’t drive, and when I could I spent 80% of the ... also on pass no record so it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. I just knew

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  , but three years ago, I wouldn’t think MIT was the “right” college to ... STEM and liberal arts. In another place, perhaps I wouldn’t have dared to ... might think you simply weren’t good enough for MIT and that now you won’t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  summer time. I try to believe that stress doesn’t change me, so the bubbly, excitable, carefree girl I’m telling you to picture isn’t so different from ... underground and reemerges, but I don’t care. Museums have always been sources of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  When it comes to Boston’s music scene, it certainly isn’t lacking. Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don’t ... subway (or the T, as it’s called here) and in little squares and plazas

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn’t ... nothing too overwhelming. I hope that doesn’t sound like pretentious or fake ... schedules are problematic for your mental health.. While I don’t think I feel

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  haven’t seen the edited version, but am already beyond excited to appear ... . I set my own schedule. I don’t have to travel to eat (actually, I don’t ... doesn’t have those often, and I can see why. Students hate the snow days

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one ... me to apply for housing, I put East Campus first - I wasn't sure that

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014