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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s behind the cabinet, so he’s not really visible, is named Tim, after Tim the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... ; often, the indeterminacy is more fundamental than that. Such was the case with ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  . Tell us what working at the aquarium is like. Ridiculously awesome. I ... labyrinthine pastures, then (b) spending the next six hours buried elbow-deep in ... *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  stated that “Every Latin-American student at the Tech is just another link ... number of mentions! Despite the yearbook claims, Mr. Paraschos was not ... issue of The Tech. An excerpt from one of the obituaries is included below

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  they’re not taking notes, find their way across the [annotation note ... semester has become mostly a source of added stress now. It’s not really the ... unclear) at midnight because all I can think about is how much I’m not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  ="87002" /] again, first pic credit goes to Joonho Pros the cafeteria is right ... on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it ... pin drop silent, if you're into that the dome is so pretty couches

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program is called SLAP, which stands for the student lending art program, and i ... , not the original, otherwise i wouldn't even want to breathe on it -- but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  projects with some of the most unlikely people. It's not MIT, but it is great ... to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the ... keep asking myself is: what am I losing by not leaving? 2013-2014 has

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my host teaches Algebra I, Algebra II, and Pre-Calculus. The high school is ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  are now professors! Paula Hammond ('84, PhD '93), is now the Head of ... degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering ... how an MIT education is a valuable investment. Despite the awkward

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  is my fifth ME: child FROSH: i felt bad for not eating vegetables ME ... , there's so many cool -- FROSH: isn't that the ...you know ... clothing ... mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . So the proper way to think about an NFA is not by making a transition ... . Eight. The disillusioning conclusion of the fit approach is that it’s not ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is ... is the way of things. and i feel joy, and sentimental, and nostalgia

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  into the lounge, and surprisingly, Tetazoo was not the one holding ... strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Winter is coming, but it's not here yet. Come socialize outdoors while the ... morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ; I could teach you. The problem is you come from the Before. Not just ... Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... hollow is the knowledge that, some day, mom and dad will stop dancing in

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most ... 's the Swiss you're working with, after all, and everything is ... that I was on my own. Not just across-the-country alone, but 3-thousand

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  and how they are best teaching it. Not to mention, the content is very ... predecessors. The material taught in this class is not often taught anywhere else ... time I realized, 30 people had already filled out the form. So, this is

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Suite to make ridiculous creations for fun. Here is the first GIF I ever ... a play (speaking loudly, memorizing lines, not being terrified of the ... , which is true, but beside the point. I got volunteer hours for NHS through

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

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to ... remember. [annotation note="perhaps this is for the better"][/annotation] i ... well. skin skin is the barrier between the self and the outside world. in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025