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  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... ="113867" /] the days walk by and i wait and i wait, i wait and i wait for you to ... ="113884" /] oh, to be a mere celebration of oneself. [carousel image1

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  right, hoping to get something. And by magic, and by sheer luck, I ... sometimes, or it takes me a while to get things right. I don't really ... me I should get a response within two weeks, so all I had left to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  my decision was. My dad didn't force me to go to MIT, don't get me ... school. Nothing to get depressed over, really. I guess it's clear that ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... to be involved in all of them, short of finding a way to clone myself

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  finally settling to a maybe-this-isn't-so-bad idea by the time you get to ... design*. Scoring a research position is by far one of the best ways to ... letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  entry. Don't go to China Pearl; it doesn't have a shark fin. The first ... sidewalk by the BU Bridge and became momentarily distracted by a man in a University of Georgia t-shirt. Unfortunately, it only takes a moment to crash

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  " to get help, I felt like I could exist a little bit easier knowing I ... a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... their worst this semester, I talked to a few trusted people in my life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... by rocky peaks[/caption] To get to the top of the cliff, you have to ... point we had to hop between stones to cross a river. We found a turquoise

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her ... classroom to real-time projects that have a significant impact on communities ... not being able to take a shower after a long day's work. Now picture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  catch up to it and I’ll have to get a new one. Maybe by then I will be ... changing the course of a past reckoning, but I’ve learned to leave it be by ... holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  ever wake up at around 6am every day to get to school by 7ish. This clock ... In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... a snazzy little #tbt series. It's always strange to look back upon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  that I had to finish it. It's like when your mom calls you by your first ... my friends made up. It's also apparently a term having to do with ... 'm trying to put off getting to the point of this entry? Anyway, some time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  to scan it in yourself, though. Submit your entry either by leaving a ... a mini-contest, initiated by Ben: As you know if you follow Matt ... , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme ... ™ as it gets. 2.009 consumed a lot of my waking hours this fall. It

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my ... went so far as to have breakfast there Saturday morning. It's a long

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  initiative by an organization my professor started to provide "a cooperative ... 've done a lot of work for as part of my UROP. But it's good to get a formal ... internship into a full time return offer"]*the year*[/annotation] to get an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  the fun part. But I seem to get into a build, fly, crash, repeat cycle ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  friends to my first Red Sox game. I'm a senior and I've never been ... . On my way to the student center, I passed a football game. MIT vs ... . We all met up and walked over to Fenway for a late lunch. Nothing like

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  It's been a long week, but next week promises to be even longer. Classes end this Wednesday, then we have one day to study (most schools get ... :30-3:30 PM: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, featuring a presentation by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005