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  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  how so much of what i'm doing came from just watching others, but it is ... real thing". is there a real thing in the first place? am i so worried ... reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... actually surprisingly easy and a fun thing to do. My junior year, I took a ... opportunity to take a graduate-level course in education (I had many graduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  , sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit ... skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of ... was in the kitchen. We were talking when I saw that it changed, and I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... , objectively, but for me it’s a big deal. I finally have HBO access. Another in ... something new and edgy to do in the outside-of-MIT world. I’ve enjoyed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  want about what i’m feeling and how that makes me a flawed person or whatever, but if i don’t take any steps to change that, even in a small way ... do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  when all you have to do is pedal.  Now that I’m Funemployed, I get to do ... all I feel like doing is rotting in my bed and scrolling through social ... bike. Because all I have to do is to pedal.  I like Boston a lot because

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to ... countless times, I feel in a unique position to evaluate a movie about an ... will, in fact, haunt your dreams, and I think that Violet Beauregarde

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  -goers. Faneuil Hall is also beauitful in the winter, with lights, music, and a ... costs and a way to see a child prodigy in action. I’m also a fan of Kilted ... year, but I hope they bring them back in the future for a perfect blend

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  sharing our work in such a way that other people can easily understand and find interesting. Part of it is in how we explain things, like using too ... part of it is in how we talk -- being excited when you talk, speaking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  refutes all that is ephemeral in love. There comes a time, although the ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... utterly unsurprised to hear that CT is doing well. I know there are more ... , via email or in a comment below. I am hoping that others, particularly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  understand the world, and now i'm doing a senior project in that field. or the ... 't really know what that meant when i was in high school. now i think i do. my ... pebbles off a beach. they can do that because MIT teaches you how to learn

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  doing math to hours I spent sleeping is far too high." Now that we ... took a lot of leaps in high school. But that doesn't mean I'm not afraid ... math majors do it. ***Story time!!!*** Once upon a time, I was really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  is very helpful to us to have you write in your scores in a way that ... Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... in either order. One related question is, what if I plan to take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  week passes so quickly, and the weekend is over in a flash. I don't know ... , shining weekends. I do know, definitely, for sure, that in either case, I ... 'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  like math. The story I hear too often is that they loved math up to a ... , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  admit that I felt like I was swimming in a sea of frosh and large ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies, and it has nothing to do with the fact that the word contains my name, I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... UNESCO). It was also a quiet town that after around seven in the evening is ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  television in front of my treadmill. Sure, I lost a little by not hearing Alan ... !"). Unfortunately, I would have had to run like an entire marathon to do that, so I ... get a free ticket. I rule. The movie is the most adorable thing you will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  .           3. However little time there is, use it. For example, in learning a ... to go. But alas, I am now wiser about how to handle a bamboo stick ... 's motto. In this way, it was good that I couldn't entirely rely on English

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014