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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in ... cone next to the felled fire hydrant, like a battlefield cross. Rest in ... , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography ... (especially during CPW) but sometimes it gets ridiculous. When I'm late to class

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... hereditary—my multi-talented mom* taught me how to fold origami, do beading ... , who first figured out how to build such a sculpture out of business

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A ... did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production—it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... how much I wanted to come here! - and now I'm here, and it's been two

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little ... by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working ... , but little time or motivation to do anything else. In school, I had an average amount of time, and enough discipline to get my work done, but not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start ... left except to speedrun most of my second major in one semester. Maybe if

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't know how to feelBut I wanna tryI don't know how to feelBut someday, I mightSomeday, I might ... Think I forgot how to be happySomething I ... same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  talk to me in the comments!  Reputation This was the first Taylor ... has an overall happy, soft, purple-pink (but in a good way) feel to it ... that ends well to end up with you.’ In The Archer, she says: All the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they ... As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  , decompressed, and ready to get going again. And that's how you resurrect ... sessions too often when it got closer to "bedtime," and you can see just how dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... where they go for lectures and exams. It's like going to work. How could ... 't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  night until probably 4:30, didn't get to bed until six in the morning ... in the Infinite, as well as a friend to the janitorial staff and the ... 10, which itself acts as a memorial to those in the MIT community lost

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  our GRT told him how to talk to the counseling deans so he could get his ... , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9 ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure ... , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often ... useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one ... assigned, at least in the physics department. I had to send in a form and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011