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  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  , challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was part of the school’s ultra-small math olympiad class, and spent a significant number of ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  lifestyle, independent of family and old friends, who were now one Atlantic ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... of October, fall semester of freshman year - and it had been one of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... slow or quicken the progression of time. So here we are, four years from

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... been negligent of them. It’s interesting to note that a fair number of the young entrepreneurs around me are college dropouts (all out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... threshold of a new world of possibilities, like I could really achieve

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl   With her nails painted black and the whole of the world Turning

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of a time as any to save this post from the crowded purgatory of [annotation note ... blur together in a clumsy mess. Lately, I've been feeling a sort of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time ... 've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in between the kerning of those letters, everything is hiding.) I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before ... their plans over winter break. It turned out that almost all of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  -clack of my fingers, as they smacked against the keys. The glare of the TV ... of me. I'm sure my mom said some encouraging words, like she always ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to classes in a few months. However, the break from the constant demand of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... , and I hang a lot of stuff on my bedpost. There's also a lot of artwork ... , cory's desk/bed at right, caleb's bed at left On the right corner of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  of Logan airport last Friday, including Celebrated Fellow Blogger Joel B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it ... resources department released guidelines on the type of language they are ... modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  Student Profiles from MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning Course 11 is a small major with a lot of breadth. It is cross ... visualization of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning. Here you can

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed ... most of MIT. I need to decide what I want out of my MIT experience. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014