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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles ... managed to touch you, you would be “eliminated” from the game. (I later ... replaying it on the xylophone, hoping a door would magically open. But then I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  my cellphone screen. I was moderately aware of how I looked, my 3M ... accent. However, I know that only people from the outside would mistake an ... of my connections any faster than I would give up the connections

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  have ten more years left of soccerrrrrrr.” The only way I would possibly ... would want to play in college, and honestly, I hadn’t thought about it ... -year future where I would one day be done playing competitive soccer – has

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  back would finally kill me.  That night, I didn’t envision bright ... would’ve been our Senior Week. In the fall, I’ll be over at Harvard to ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  might be anymore. I’ll start somewhere and keep talking, how’s that ... this as a bit of a warning, even though you are so young. I remember how ... only to sit down for another round of coffee.  what would i tell myself

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  ."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  expecting the stereotype, i.e. that everyone here would be incredibly nerdy and anti-social, and that I would fail all my classes because they'd be ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  , I apologize again, and I would still like a reasonably good grade once ... advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it ... particularly difficult problem sets that you have no idea how to start. I also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  the only thought in my head was “I thought we would have beautiful ... my mind. I wanted to hug them, and tell them that everything would be ... somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  rather than entrepreneurial, in which case I imagine it would be less of a ... their grades. I realized how much my parents love me (and I never could ... . Before college, I would make long-term plans and carry them out with my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  would, I decided to use these results to predict the number of units I would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... about problem sets for like three paragraphs, and how stressed out I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... a career in aerospace research? How did I figure it all out? These are ... , and [annotation note="i'm continually amazed at how their feet aren

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . It was fun. How could they say that? Am I really gonna take this class ... ? Nope. Swim requirement was a thing. And one way or another, I would have ... while simply drinking water. He chuckled. I was serious. You know how

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... . PhD in hand, I thought I would drop in (hello!) and share some thoughts ... terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , and often I find myself wondering how things would be if I had stepped ... , I would say that this was a year of trying new mediums and materials ... work I was doing. This might have just been how things work at this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... call this modesty, but I would call this a warped sense of reality. The ... ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  advice I would give to myself as an 18-year-old, other than stop eating ... of Thrones in one sitting. (I would never do that! I hate Twizzlers ... for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  - because I'm not physically at the conference, I would sometimes tend towards ... "]haven't been cited yet,[/annotation] so I have no idea how the math around ... factors. I'm still learning how to write up data analyses and say coherent

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever ... school was safer, even though I felt I really wanted to go into public

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014