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• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  to be, how do I know “who I’m not?” If you can’t tell, this was a very ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a ... easily, who says I can't? I have always been a person who has felt very

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at ... meant I didn't pay for it. So how did I end up with such a great education ... district had to spend to send him to a school that they hadn't even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only ... !!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 7. 5:38 PM I can't believe the end is so close...I'm sitting ... didn't have a thesis to do in order to graduate, would you be in LMP at 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  sob. I can't remember the last time I cried like that. Alone and on a ... . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness ... hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  5:00 p.m. EST.' What do you make of this? If I haven't made a decision ... second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in ... /arts/social science class, and a freshman seminar. Don't worry, your advisor will help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I always struggled with fiction writing and long-form storytelling. Writing a news article for the school paper or a personal blog post or a school

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  (because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table ... plum sauce, because I’m allergic to cranberries, and farina cake after a ... cup of milk, and a small amount of salt. Don’t add salt if you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  for more than a few weeks at a time. I don’t know if I ever felt like I ... Pinterest. My couch featured a rotating cast of MIT friends. When it didn’t ... half-hearted application to Berkeley because it was There, but I wasn't a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or ... elementary school. Yes, I know, a completely different martial art; please don’t ... quarters. And a quarter means one out of four… at this point, I’m not even

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  so large that even a .5x wasn't zoomed out enough for me to get it all ... unfunded high school club can fix, we didn't do a lot other than sit around ... our t-shirt. Junior year, this was us all deciding on a mountain range

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  Influenza A, subtype H1N1 is the most famous swine flu virus. It is endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  Ralph Lauren, which for those who don't know is a complex shade of ... desk or futon underneath. We wouldn't have space for a futon if I didn't build a loft, or at least the room wouldn't be as open." It's fairly rare

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  2003. Why didn't we have a logo until 2003? And how was that logo made ... the graphic identity, but there isn't really a standard standard one[/caption] So, we already talked about how I was surprised that MIT didn't get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  it okay if I come by and exchange them? Even if I don't have the ... Ave VARIOUS FRAT BOYS: (thinking) I wonder if that kid is a freshman ... going to hit me in the head with those blinds, isn't she? ME: (thinking) I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  indicated by the map, and noticed a large group of people rallied. We hadn't ... One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... , Red Sox riots, and now a new one. Several weeks ago I heard about a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... least a single commonality linking the populace, whether that be a national sense of patriotism, or a common commitment to individual liberty

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  haven't done music theory in a while. It's also a half term class so it ... there are so many cool ones and I'm having difficulty choosing what to do ... 6 [annotation note="Communication Intensive class in my major."]CI-M

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  was literally a couple people behind us, but we didn’t even notice until ... , she didn’t want a baby because she thought that it would only make her ... stage and was choosing a song, she said “I’m being such a bad musical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  featured a whopping $16K budget, was held during my Campus Preview Weekend ... March, I was unable to experience it. Two years later, I'm a floor chair ... event would be horrible, and hosting a party on Easter wasn't an option

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  , a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm ... side of the building. If my door is open I have a strategic view of the ... quiet as the rest of the back of the building. 335 was initially painted a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012