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  On Greatness

  

  . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get ... to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a ... best you can be at it. Why? Because if you do this, greatness in some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  thought to myself: easy! If I was able to get 5s on my APs and As in my ... will offer advice on how to succeed, unless you’re me, in which case they ... live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  latter. So if you ever wanted to find out how to do the airport ... ™,[/annotation] here's my advice: Get to the airport so early that you learn that you ... while waiting Get mad you're not that good at Tetris Check to see if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  thing is that I was so careful this ENTIRE summer to not get injured, but ... probably a lot of prospective MIT students), that’s a hard pill to swallow ... unexpected joy in the situation. Accepting help gave the chance to make some

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a shelter for raped and sexually abused girls. Her original plan was to ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  from distant lands to Cambridge, via Boston Logan Airport. I hold great ... they didn't let me in at the border? How would I carry my suitcases all ... foot to enter the US? Was I really moving to an apartment in Boston, to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  seeks to empower young Sri Lankan mothers made pregnant through rape and ... ’s rights, and race relations. She plans to do the M.Phil. in development ... underprivileged students. He eventually plans to pursue a doctorate in biological

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity ... demonstrations. I didn’t want to associate with individuals who get exercised ... folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them ... most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there ... , and trudged across the street to MIT Medical. Sitting in the waiting

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  incoming freshman will not have this semester to see what being in an MIT ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to ... your desk in the Reading Room to see a row of empty coffee cups and Red

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... bought so he could send it to his girl back home. I agreed. We were in a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  months after caught in the act of rape, and black Brian Banks gets ... “black” got more weight and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it. Mostly ... sinks in what he’s accusing me of, and as he begins to say “why can’t you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting ... people don't like. And that's just how we are." She then went on to tell ... the first to speak, always be the first to call out. But in recent years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... . Naturally, when people starting asking me about how many classes I had to take/how

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what he wants. Take these to their logical conclusion and you get Demon, at ... to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... other engineer in the country, even compared to other engineers from the ... , the unbreakable backbone I will need to continue in this field is no

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  dinners and parties. In French House, I've learned how to feel responsible ... Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case ... that they're important ideas to have in my toolkit of Answers To

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  ' topics. Can anyone guess mine? November 29: Education in Kerala, India Textile industry and trade Determinants of the price of vodka Access to the morning-after pill and unsafe sex December 1: Impact of Vioxx's downfall on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005