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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  them, I came here to fix Muti’s water. So, it became a promise. After ... Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... the answer before returning it to idle, listlessly day dream about the ... (usually just before it's due) and literally sprint through the work to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been ... while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... — After the car was lowered by several dorm men it was placed back in the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  with drones. However, it was too late to back out, and, after a ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  developed increased bodily elasticity that allows it to dip in the middle ... bursts open due to its contents exceeding the capacity of its central pit ... the bottom of the Pocket's pit. This allows the Pocket to release its

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

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  : follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some of your ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  understanding of it. After my final all-nighter I woke up to someone waddling down ... talking to people, I stopped cleaning my room, and I got very lonely. It ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  a "now or never" deal: my parents had wanted to make this trip after ... unfamiliar but exhilarating feeling, experiencing what like it's like to have a ... Chinese," somehow it was easier to say than "wo ai ni" — "I love you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  have been able to do the long multiplication in my head.) It turned ... one minute to spare, Aiden, Jebby, and I made it out of Next Haunt alive ... it would take to get from a T stop in Boston back to Next House. Out of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... unreasonable stress. i guess it's my contribution to the many student stories of mental health at mit. if you would like to read it, it's called "the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home ... . 5) Say yes more. It's healthy to go on an adventure every once in a while, even if it sounds scary. You'll have a new story to tell, or maybe

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... time, I did. It kept me rooted still, fixed to the floor, listening to my ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 2013. What It's Been Like to be Pre-Med at MIT I like it. I feel like ... -med? Wait, so why did you pick MIT?" It makes sense that I received this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... will always impose constraints which are beyond your control. It’s up to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it ... : Always a great place to pset late at night. It also had the closest printer

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all ... it, she describes insecurity and despair, partners to high ... worth it. There are better and healthier roads to success. Dear Class of

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

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary ... specific setting. I would never suggest that it's easy to recreate "an MIT ... in realizing those hopes comes after pi day, not before it - excelling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come ... told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real ... reach that I tried in vain to remain detached from. It wasn’t that I felt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  until the wee hours of the morning to obtain last minute results. It was ... we pushed on it further, and it continued to work surprisingly well ... experiments to run, more ideas to try out on the off chance that it’ll make my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021