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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  into class with that single objective, but I came out wiser in other ways ... nostrils burned a bit, and in a panic I opened my mouth. I quickly leaped out ... 't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  other students? Who can I reach out to? The same communities that I had ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me ... ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in ... . Probably a mix. We spread out, eyeing each other excitedly. I wondered what

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... you missed it, which I'm pretty sure you didn't, MIT EA comes out this ... , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• 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"

  

  chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people ... played it well when alone, but in class my hands shook and I pressed my ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can ... far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... down this weekend, catch up on everything I missed in 8.022, hammer out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me ... listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in ... . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  extensions, I finally handed it in and, to my surprise, I got a 0. Turns out ... out of time for. I felt pain as I handed it in with only one solution ... and lashed out in an unforgiving sucker punch. The weekend I was going

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's window. I remember thinking that this can't be our last goodbye, but in a ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in each others' arms, screamed profanities in the courtyard, maxed out the

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

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

  

  will look like out in the real world. A real world where I can't just ... . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... , but we are all like that. "I can't wait to get out of here. I am willing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... 'm not in fact a bioengineering major, because I can't see myself doing ... blogposts really closely, you can kind of make out when I was thinking about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I watched Rocketman with two of my roommates. Out of seven people living in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021