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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  if he’ll ever be able to write the way he did before. Finally, the film ... I watched the more I felt my desire to recreate it grow. It came to ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  -wide chapter is the lack of housing options. It’s difficult to find a place where ... refreshing to see everybody on the same call, and even with the distance, he ... chapters from around the country will come to see people being initiated. It’s

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... at the end. :'( As such, it is almost impossible to cram for any exam ... of what the people around you are doing, it is the most important to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  construction work, Toros returned briefly to the flour business, but soon became ... success (and wealth) when he returned to Puerto Rico to continue the sugar ... wasn’t as great. Freshman year, in the Faculty Records, he was “called to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others ... of it. (250 words maximum)[/intro]   If you are familiar with ... questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  the Green Building; according to MIT myth, it was built to block the ... advancement and development of science, its application to industry, the arts ... . Among other things, they're the people you call when you need to get that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... knows what to do to heal. It doesn't know, and I don't know, and the ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• 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 ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... site because it's hilarious - and it's also where I got the above two

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

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

  

  without something sweeter to mix it with, like apple or orange, but if he ... footsteps? Before returning to Doomsday devices and explosives and the rest of ... failed. The shooting has begun. Both sides have vowed to fight to the death

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... the spotlight, but I really want to return to them in the upcoming year ... , but it was fun to mix and layer the clips and audio together to make a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  guarantees about if I’d be able to get it back. The choice between ... returning, freedom, pay, ... Even if you can figure out how to rank within ... comparing more sunny days to how well you fit with the people? It’s not even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  -ish October, each District emails or calls its Finalists to let us know that we ... parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to interact with the staff, even if it was only pleasantries. Have a ... One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... had to pack up way before I did. So it was weird, with half of the room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mention all equations and little theory which made it easy to pick up the ... , not four. It's easy to say that you'll read the lecture notes for the ... requires you to correct for it all at once. I can't go to lecture if I haven

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  belt like a janitor. It’s perfectly fine if you like the jangle, but it’s ... it may surprise you to know that even an institution as old as MIT has ... – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  . The full moon will bleed crimson-red for three hours before returning to its usual white. She is surprised and asks if that is the reason for the ... not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015