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  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  slow down. But, in truth, I can’t help but feel like I’d do it all again ... class starts in five minutes, that she doesn’t really care how I’m doing ... summer nights. Between the “I can’t make it through this semester” to the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  before, so I wasn't sure what kind of paint I should use. There were cans ... in an art classroom. To get the straight edges for the background, I ... (I was born in Atlanta). Lineart It was weird to do color first and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... , and best overall. Can anyone guess which category I entered my pumpkin ... can out-geek us by carving Athena. Right. Other people noted how he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  . But how can this be? This is an unallowable paradigm shift! I'm a ... the Van Allen Radiation Belt HOW COOL WAS THAT?! I was in. (But it ... space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of ... taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  gruel and I'd look in disgust at how they had ruined the very nice thing ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college: not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... object is moving in a circle. I got a lot more confident with rotational

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  Lately I've been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in ... time I've ever felt like I was back in high school despite being in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what I am asking is, specifically, how has MIT helped you come closer to ... what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  competitive in the international pool. Beyond that, there's little more I can ... , but beyond that I can't help. All I can say is to apply and see how it ... a copy of the site in a CD and send it to MIT or can I refer them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  to be terrible but I saw We Bought A Zoo so how much lower can Matt ... not. Oops.) - I finished my last MIT classes, I ate my last meal in the Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  or consider everything else i’ve written in this post. how i thought ... that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... meeting stem people. i don’t have an opinion on how correct my friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how ... promises can't shake off the sense that I've made some amazing friends and ... seriously considering schools in the U.S. for college; I have my fingers

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ? What are you talking about? P.S. Can I just tell you all how much the ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to ... Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I take every chance I can to drop by Central Square and listen to a few ... time since I've been at MIT, that location is Boston! In fact, quite a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... track progress this clearly in academics. How can you really tell if you ... How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  important role in how i experience attraction. i remember a few years ago one ... occurs all the time in humans as well. i’ve written about this idea before ... , feeling that they “can’t do” math, and not trying as hard in subsequent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023