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  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  check in, watching older students smiling widely when they get to put ... them plan and plan over the best thing to do only minutes later, how fast ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  enough to get to Killarney early. Alas.  I was stressed for parts of the ... get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed ... ’ll get some work done tonight. But first I want to record the highlights of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  don't think of or look to the UA as a mechanism for solving them. I ... to get involved in student government, because the only student ... the time. What eventually motivated me to get involved with the UA was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  new things to do. I'm definitely glad I stayed for IAP--some opt to take ... first few days were reserved for practice and to get acclimated to the ... event ended in order to get back for my 6.177 group presentation, and didn

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  for it through a Google form (FYI: most MIT classes you can just register for, no questions asked). Gosh, I essentially wrote a love letter to ... pose for class a few times! It was really cool to work with real people

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  finally understood I had to get out of my neighborhood I got into one little ... Jersey. I worked for RU for three years and I realized that I wanted to ... every type of background from New Jersey). I look forward to lending

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  decision for me until I get to campus. The word on the street is that yes ... inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An ... -requisite to have been a cheerleader to try out for the MIT squad. No, you don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  to get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. One tip ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in something or by defining ourselves with certain characteristics. For example ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not ... , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  left to shovel, but they shovel the slush anyway. Oh, and by slush, this ... 's Ring Premiere to get an idea of what I'm talking about. There are some ... I hate New England. No really, I do. Ask anyone who's had the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for ... to me, compared to parks in Boston – and delicious sushi for lunch, I ... , and proceeded to sit and wait calmly for fifteen minutes) and made it

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to ... 're not done yet! When you get to campus for orientation you'll stay in your

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel ... “suspected terrorist” for up to 14 days without warrant. And the bill is ... , every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  most likely assigned reading for your classes that just add to the time out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot ... seven places to P-Set: 1. Quincy Market, Upstairs by the GAP This is

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... members showed up to bring to the table both their ideas for what Cracked ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I ... kicked off of campus, I was naive enough to believe that we'd be back by ... started to sink in that not only would we not be back by May, we might not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  years and upperclassmen, and get a feel for everything MIT has to offer ... four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... . For the rest of you, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  going to have to find something new because the elders have kind of made ... , while TikTok is becoming the new innovative fun spot for kids Kellen ... So, let me set the scene for the [annotation note="Some would call it

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  , getting permission to be or do something new. [carousel image1 ... In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... another one in actually seeing those places. I did try to get out when I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021