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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands ... and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a ... 't remember where - with my instructor supporting me on top of the water with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  date. the new gym will be live in a year. sorry for the lack of good ... environment with lots of other people focused on their own lifts. I find that ... exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces ... out. march on, march on. guest post by Piper ('17) -- a new friend, and ... mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... this mess of overcommitment. Here’s another thing that’s new. For the ... , or DEAPS. The highlight of DEAPS was a trip to New Hampshire to scale

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  undergrad who had juggled this project on top of a full course load and other ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket ... spend a lot of time on the internets answering questions about MIT and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  out sailing. He is so insanely generous that, on the last day of summer ... fortuitously visible just to the side of one of the only trails on the island. My ... This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and the sides of the heart. Happily this worked on the first try! Now ... dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a few examples of modern blacksmithing, ranging from the "new and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant ... -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class ... of the class (as measured by the weekly hours on Firehose) and the ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... else on this campus, but I have done a little bit of this and that. This Tech article came out hot on the heels of Lydia's blog post, Meltdown. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... efforts focus on a style of educational encounter which emphasizes the ... on each form. 6. Give the other EVALUATION OF APPLICANT form to a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... , so I refused to specialize. I didn’t want to give up on any of my ... . For now, I still have lots of exciting work to do on Beaver

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... reproduce by replicating themselves on the inner lining of their pits and then ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... [/annotation]. And that’s life so far in Austin! It’s full of parks, rivers, new ... June, I’ve been put on six different projects. One of them is my intern

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... at the connotation of "creativity" from a new angle (in a sense, be ... you write on both of them, but as shorter essays. Actually, I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... effect of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) on the drought stress of Solanum ... /crazy/confusing sense of humor, depending on who you’re asking. Robby and I have been

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... 's contagious enthusiasm, check out these videos on sizes of infinity and the ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015