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Downtown
Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between like 12:30-1 and walk around Boston CJ: i have hw CJ: but fuck...
View ArticleDigital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun
I have so many things and so little space, but I’ll try my best to communicate it. I just walked out of an event called “Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun” and I shit you...
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loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo
I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft01 Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire...
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a gcal september
i have a general color coding scheme: green are classes. they’re pretty much the only things i’ve been putting on my calendar for the past three years. light blue are things that are interesting, but...
View ArticlePoetry from 5 AM This Morning
This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can finally say I’ve drunk from the firehose and tasted it vicious...
View Article[JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female
Andrea Orji, ’21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek-hey”) meaning “all is well”. Many times in my discussions with people at work, at the market or anywhere else I found myself at some...
View ArticleYour college application motivation soundtrack for October
Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y’all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month’s theme is to get hyped up and get shit...
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freshman blogger, sophomore student
Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My identity as a clueless freshman has been stripped though I have inadvertently introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I...
View ArticleYour college application motivation soundtrack for October
Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y’all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month’s theme is to get hyped up and get shit...
View ArticleLet me introduce myself.
My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking, and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and...
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MacG 50ish years ago
Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here’s a recent one: Jim Olson ’74, OG MacG resident, answered some questions I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor...
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We can do this!
We are in our senior year of college now 01 how??? , and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior year of high school. In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply to that...
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i rode a train across america
Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June. I often find myself flitting from coast to coast, but still...
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Choosing Your Own Adventure
Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read about it. If you’re an incoming freshman or thinking of applying, this won’t apply to you just yet anyway, since all freshman are...
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Flu shots
Last Thursday, MIT Medical had a walk-in clinic at Walker, where MIT community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and...
View ArticleYes, we care about your stories
I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions officers at many colleges and universities will travel...
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a semester’s shenanigans
the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post because honestly, i stare at a full Google Calendar every day, half reassuring myself that i’m Doing Things and half stressing...
View ArticleIs it a video?
Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that...
View Article[Guest Post] One Year Later
Since today is National Coming Out Day, my friend wrote about coming out to his family. Here’s his story. A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled...
View ArticleA Major Crisis
I’m currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and comforting hometown of Los Angeles, California (well, not quite. I live slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.) I’m really excited...
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