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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  : Notice how I stare at Zach in awe as he scarfs down dog number 7. I am just ... 'll try to get funding, but bring some money along in case I can't. It ... to do it, how is that even hard!?" Matt and Ben were skeptic. I was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  you’re wrong, even in the face of undeniable evidence. You can always ... How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... in class; everyone around you will think you’re stupid for not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  because I feel like I am Good at math, but because I can feel small ways in ... understand just how brutal mathematics can be. As if, I was lying to myself by ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... best you can be at it. Why? Because if you do this, greatness in some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... that, because in real life we all want to be cool. Note also that I am ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... 'm starting early so I can have time to make my decision and figure out a number of logistical issues like housing, etc. So how do I go about finding a

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can ... regular decision apps must be in- preferably longer, but I know you are in the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• 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 ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... succeeded in this by reading The Alchemist and The Road, I quickly found

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... . "Wow, I can't even imagine what that's like," I said.   I realized ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that ... I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  again but the words can't come out right and I don't know how else to ... describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... that I've come so far, that a personality could change so much in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... culture really small pieces of liver tissue in a scaffold that can be

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The ... the artist whose design I choose, *and* send you some MIT memorabilia in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  how nice ink can be. Now that I've proudly proclaimed one of the ... One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... you have a smartphone? Understand that I didn't have a smartphone in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... . they exist, definitely, but not in a way that i can say. nine. of course ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  test when the orientation planners demand), and in doing so I can ... thing I identify with when I think about who I am and how I want to be portrayed. "MIT student?" But Anthony is so much more than that. So how do I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  thrown in whole, peel and all. Overall, I know how I feel—frankly, bad ... every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the ... bus driving through Boston. I’m not kidding- it was early in the morning ... Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, but maybe I’ll save it for later, since I realize

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010