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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is versions away from the Afeefah that is sitting in her childhood bedroom ... live with it. In the meantime, all I can do is hold on to the people that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  call is pickup. one tw—wait, that starts with the left foot, but it’s my ... is forward waltz, and i’m on the correct foot again. one two three, one ... couple more measures before the song ends. the ending is step apart and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  minimal though because Maseeh is the king of convenience), reading ... . That’s not to say that I had no work. Each of the three videos for my ... . The process for dropping is rather straight forward in that you submit

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... is what I remember:  The creator of this album, John Darnielle, didn ... have this one song called “This Is Milk” off of their 2021 EP “the last

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  the beautiful is one I can't pass on. [caption id="attachment_100807 ... ']solar cycle.[/annotation] This is wild." "Sorry, but if you’re not an aurora ... on the HIGHWAY in Maine this is INSANE" "Oh my god" the adventure At 9

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  of the car before falling, was my crash not more serious. This is what ... mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way ... admittedly is a baller - so I also love the Charles River Bike Path, which runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... ? Well, the obvious things…twelve months without school is fun, right

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  ." ... "Impostor syndrome" is the name given to the feelings that Abigail and many ... syndrome is the mirror image of the similarly common (though much more ... A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  wondering what's happening to your applications. The honest truth is, we're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... have an office-mate but he is ALWAYS falling asleep on the job! Trinidad

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... feels like to go to MIT. The blogs are not supposed to be a soapbox from ... other people’s lives. You might not know that you are the glue holding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  we ask that you do is complete the Midyear Report, which will be ... is the Midyear Report? The Midyear Report (MYR) is an online form ... application. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  that MIT is about 50% Asian. 11:30: I met Mace (short for MeiHsin), the ... through virtually the entire campus. So one need not ever see the light of ... , Vassar St. is not a highway. It's barely an alley. You just called it a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we change the space with wicked lighting setups. So much is the same: our ... with me which is super fun. two people who are not me have slept in my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Princeton, NJ. This is not the be confused with a meeting of students who have ... important on Monday, spent some time at the public library on Tuesday (I'm not ... things about MIT is the names of our a capella groups. The Chorallaries

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  MIT is like that—the journey is long, and it's not about going as fast ... about all the things I want to know about. This is not to say that I ... and the hare is more about the tortoise's ability to keep going rather

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... Humphrey Bogart. She also apparently made one killer brownie, which is the ... family-friendly, I’ll just say the surgeon general would NOT approve. I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  i am today is not the person i was a year ago, or two years ago, or ... painfully obvious to me that the world i have come to know is not at all the ... goop, not terrain. after all, it’s not like at every meter of terrain the

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  ): The material looks like it will be fun. The class is pretty small, 26 or ... and see what came out, and this class is the result. It seems like it ... drew schematics of it. This is easily the most male-heavy Course 9 class

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  called the East Campus Alumni Houses, and each building is split into three ... East Campus, you see, is the culture. The age of the facility, the ... floor is something different to each person. For the most part, we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... interested in and is rather visible in society. For the first time in my life ... 10. I won't have to think about the Crystal Field Theory... ...Which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009