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  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  a BIG campus. Now I’m glad that MIT is much more reasonably sized. 40 ... that leads to three nights in a row of cereal for dinner. Don’t do it ... ”. I would cross-stitch that on a pillow if I knew how to sew. I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  sure there is a single "right" answer to that question. I wish I could ... blogs, I hope you realize that admissions is more than just a job for ... , really, this is not the end of the world. I wish I could tell you all that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... . *** Q: Tell me a little about yourself. A: I’m Vaishnavi, a junior in ... ? A: INSPIRE is the first and only national high school competition that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  't: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort. This is one of the things I still think ... , scrutinizing them with a skeptical eye and asking “How do we really know it ... somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well ... . '16 and I are making a bean casserole dish that is supposed to be really ... .  All that is left is the national exam, which I am taking within the next

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  to work in (most divisions of) a big bank is that I’m too soft and lazy ... , and in that light I think the externship was a very worthwhile ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  it.  I learned that MIT was a jock school by living in it. I saw my ... history of being a feared team in the NEWMAC. I’m sure the friends and ... know the truth: that MIT is a jock school. They know that these nerds are

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I did really, really horribly. For some reason, I doubt that is the case

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  overstatement. But, I do know that, that December, I began to feel a lot more ... , and they did a good job, and I knew in my heart of hearts that I had ... MEng is designed to be a three-semester program, and I'm one term in, and

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

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  .01/Physics I assumed that I knew, but I have been assured that 8.02 is a lot ... reading Vergil is like riding a bike, and you never forget? Maybe... I do ... that I'm doing a little excited dance: 🎶 Gonna learn so much stuff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

   usually do on a Sunday morning with the dog, my partner, and the wood stove cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 hours in Kendall Square. "Don't you still have that gift certificate for

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... fun! I went on a ride that looks like this*. then when I got home I con

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... me realize that the idea of pursuing an PhD or Master's in media is not ... thinking about this a lot. This semester I was pretty successful in my job

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  they made me uncomfortable. That I did not feel safe being in a house ... myself: Do you feel better now? In a way, I did. This time was different ... first time in that house, I felt at ease. This blogpost is still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of ... Strongbad/Homestarrunner (is that still a popular thing? Am I just ... time I checked in... We learned about hashing, and how it's a trade

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... read, I see a lot that I remember vividly and still love: The Wind ... , The Goldfinch. but there are a few that I consumed way too quickly and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  great but I remember being too stressed to do that and binging Wass all I ... and doing what you love (even if that takes getting hit by a truck to ... window, look at the sky (I hope there is a sunset) 2. Write down what you

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  commentary." "How is that possible? There must be something in there! I got ... you. There is no way that a.) there are only 1500 talented kids in the ... because I got denied at MIT." I can't tell you how ridiculous that is. I

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  cowboy or a butterfly, except that here I could actually really do it), I ... setting is a pretty amazing thing to have once the explosion that is Orientation hits. Also, I learned how to work a lathe, use a bandsaw at an angle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  time, capitalism, a sentence I read recently about how time is like a ... in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022