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  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  pleasure. Besides, he didn't need to get into MIT, not the way I did. When ... she needed more than a boyfriend to get there.  As Mitski sang, the ... Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the next four years were to hold. I was anxious about living so far away from home. I was worried about the academic rigor that was to come. I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  : "What do you mean I need to pay $1,200 to fix it? I'm still covered under ... pine (to check email), zephyr (to IM, once in a blue moon), tellme combo ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  sure they put your baggage on the next flight, and you're going to need ... So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you ... think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... the need to be attended to most of the time. i should be allowed to take ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  novel nature enables each page to tell multiple sub-stories at once as ... stilted or awkward. An author tries to shove too much into one character ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  scientist that does not include, at some level, some comparison to Einstein ... generation of scientists and engineers who need role models, who need to see ... . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me ... don’t actually need the money; in reality, the money needs you to give ... needs to happen within the monolithic institutions in academia or profit

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... relief and calm when I kicked my feet in the water was one I needed to ... boring. But all this means is that I need to decide what activities are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it ... (including myself) value: you need to ask for help, research opportunities, etc ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much” once I finish therapy. *Recently, someone I was talking to managed to ... , vernacular magic. Anyway, back to how much my week sucked. Three weeks, 13

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  , with open notes and as much time as I needed, and scan my answers back to ... 't think much about it afterwards, but woah. That meant the world to me ... needed to refer to notes. Together, we would diagnose what's going on. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  reopen in a year and we needed as much attention as possible. Burton Conner ... their floors. much to our surprise, we received a ton of responses!! i was ... of Burton Conner. REX, which was from August 29 to September 1st, is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  teenagers and handwritten signs and it was so fucking much. It was so much to ... much a large arena. The person seated directly next to me did not seem ... I wanted to share that with you all. trigger warnings: talks of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  to reach the end of the line. Every once in a while, a train passes by ... from classes with a [annotation note="i ate so much fruit. soooo much ... end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  financial aid forms (thank you so much!), and even drove me to the post office ... to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  's quiet enough to shoot without needing ear protection. The class is nine ... , a black rectangle, above the muzzle. To aim the pistol, you needed to ... 't need to be there to guess how it made me feel to see so many holes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told ... want to achieve anything in life, you need to both work hard and be ... run-up to the S&L crisis. Here's what Lewis had to say about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a ... cable access to ~60 channels). There’s really so much more I ... [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011