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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  white striped button down. I waited in line at Cava next to the white ... themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... 't then you don't. It is as simple as that. I remember back in school the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... triggers the spice sensation, is oil-based and would only be moved around in ... remedy is to slowly chew on carbs, typically rice (because it absorbs the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  challenge you is an experience most people who come to MIT have never had ... stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing ... attitude out in the world. Because my most recent internships have been

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... a pretty serious South Park bender at the time and the art in South

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  hollow is the knowledge that, some day, mom and dad will stop dancing in ... . There is never enough time to spend with the people you love.  I am your ... doesn’t care; I could shield you. There is so much more for you to learn

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... involves Einstein, but the other - and the first angle I'll try - is to tell ... things I had done to keep myself occupied in the summer, though it was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... feverishly right up to the deadline date - and submitted, confident in my ... think about most is the fact that I almost didn’t apply. This scares me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... this Guardian article about inventor culture at MIT, here is the Boston ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  first students to arrive in the fall and practice twice per day before the ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  all the mailing lists you want to stay on because you know mit is going ... 'm running errands in california, like going to the bank and getting my mom's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to perform--he is simply here to be himself. The musicians behind him slow jam while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God

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

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’m working on right now is the most important thing that I could be doing and ... called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... can fall down my priorities list. In the spring semester, I want to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... evolved need to consume nutritious minerals? In either case, the spacial ... to Professor Sadoway, who in all likelihood taught you about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... accidentally drove the lolriokart into an enormous bank of computers in front of ... , like a Segway, is a self-balancing scooter, but, unlike the Segway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011