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  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  culture felt underwhelming and couldn’t improve my opinion of the place. at ... best fits and beaming at the camera. there’s always a lot of energy in ... valid to want to create and keep the best memento of your experience at

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  admissions rate of about 2-4% at the time I went). I ended up not being friends ... to hear at this time last year, and maybe it's exactly what one of you ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  awesome UROP at the Page lab, and some of the rest volunteering as a brother ... everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  the feeling of snow on the ground, the feeling of being free and at home ... true of all things. And, if not, at the very least, this break has been ... fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  kicker can aim at the far left side or far right side of the goal, and the ... in awe at how skilled professional athletes are, and another part of me ... and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... of feels like a fall from grace to move from being a token-woman-who-is-good-at ... extraordinarily rough for me, and at the beginning of this semester, i spent so much

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  ), and I started photographing the moths at my home. By the end of high ... constant hum of insects at any time of the day or night, so perpetual that ... than flies. Others are the size of bats. Many are experts at camouflage

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  ! I’m certainly going to do them again! I even did at least one of them ... becomes new again. A Philosophy of Software Design (56k words). I'm at the ... . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  7. For those of you who don't know, Lobby 7 is the main lobby at MIT ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) at MIT. While at CPW I figured out which dorm I

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  . I still cringed at Mufasa’s death, and by the end of the second volume ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... get some exercise. I was horrified at how quickly I became out of breath ... My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time ... . Except at MIT, it's a waterfall of knowledge. As I said last entry, I won ... pset, woke up for no reason at 6 AM, and finished the rest of it in under

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  compensate for the lack of Oreo cookies at Aldi by substituting smashed-up Twix ... -Bonn airport at 10:15 AM, head out for Philadelphia by way of Frankfurt on my ... . Probably fail at that goal. Wednesday -- First day of classes! Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  think at that time of semester i spent a lot of time playing kingdom of ... i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in ... 've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue ... portfolio of activities aren't necessarily coherent, many don't help at all ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  magic mimicked every single one of my attempts to pass them for at least ... My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  were still going strong as time ran out at the end of the fourth round ... happy with how they delegated roles at the very beginning of the exercise ... ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  somewhere kind of far out at sea as the sun set. I mused about reclining in a ... Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  on the tip of my tongue at the time. That was an absolutely stupid thing of me to do, but I guess it reflects the state of my mind at that ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011