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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  big cities alike. As you can probably tell by the fact that I’m writing ... only a twenty minute walk), and my friends and I can be more spontaneous ... enough to cover a Dunkin’ run, but I can get seats to a baseball game for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... retrospect, I can understand why she'd reacted like this. How could I have felt ... visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  just got tired of taking better care of things I can replace...You can't have a hot car and a hot house and get out looking crazy.” I can think of ... It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

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

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... and how they can donate blood. “I am O-, and donating blood is the first ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Grand Poobah and which preceded Stephen Colbert’s super PAC army). I met ... inseparable part of the MIT identity—and the roots of these traditions can be ... character of the humidification, depending as it does so much upon the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  scripts] Now. . . here's the amazing part. I can't access VSPink ... and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  ! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I Have Before I Throw Up. Scary things Fear Level The dark 130 The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  superintendent. As much as there were "I can get through this, I've been through ... much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are experiences that I can only truly share with the people I know from my hometown

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... it), this isn't a problem I can outwork. The only thing that will fix ... nearly so. That means that I can focus on doing the best I can for myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran ... spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can ... and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... its true. I can sit in a room with [annotation note="heck, even a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  :18-22? Crazy!), and it has been a game changer to have people I can grow in faith ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  then there are my professors, who have, as far as I can tell, been ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... Can Never Hope To Be. He walked over. We talked. I admit that I shed a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  challenge me even more to raise my own expectations of what I can achieve ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... Senior Week events, I can tell I'm getting high off low-oxygen altitude

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  more than I can express - the precarious chain of events that happened to ... Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... , and try to level the playing field accordingly (I can't remember where I ... of what Mom and Dad can do to help. Maybe I just lived a very fortunate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  . Actually, I'd modify that "can be" to a "should be", because I'd argue that ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011