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  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  me that I would survive, that it was only one test, and that mechanical ... Ok, I'm breaking my "Only blog every other day" rule, but only because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  E house (it looks wayyyyy better now!) I was struck by how different my ... different my life is now, how different I am. The stakes have been raised ... several currently separate machines, which I thought would be closest to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  growing to like the new house. I would come to prefer it, with its proximity ... shops, which I would come to love. I wonder sometimes what it would be ... , the paint job full of mistakes my dad would point to and tell me how to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  by, like Bonsai Kittens. But I really can't imagine why somebody would ... , this is an MIT blog, I figured that my general readership would be nerdy ... , and I don't know how much longer father can hold out. The enemy has

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  filled balloons with confetti to represent a nose filled with snot. I would ... offered. ISEF would happen if it was meant to be, and by all means I ... ’s about how science fair as a whole made me a better version of myself. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like ... Valley with a population over 4,000 students. How did you get to MIT? I ... to my dad because I knew he would not like the idea of letting me leave

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... life that such a mixture of people works. So, how do I feel like I fit ... international buffet. Now, I'm not sure how I break down percentage-wise, but I

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  I'm ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh** Well, I kinda wish I'd been ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh**, but I wasn't. Instead, I ... 's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  prevent this from happening again? How would you design it? To applicants ... Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C ... uncompromising, and the chill was biting. Some days I would come back from work ... a feeling I would love my spring classes more than I loved my fall

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... -eyed twenty-three year old MIT Admissions officer used to be; how did that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... come up with and how they would respond to our constraints. We set up our ... and terrifying. I warned the back half of the line that the wait would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  underestimates how fast i walk"]45 minute walk[/annotation]. i'm usually too tired ... how much money i spend on uber"]a budget car[/annotation] from somewhere ... realize how badly i need one, and cities like boston - where you can walk or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  appointment with the tutor, but that would be a lie. I didn’t even look up her e ... , exactly; I just didn't know how to write that kind of paper. I didn ... out how the paper was meant to be written: if only I had checked in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  might need more than the incredibly awesome How to Get Around MIT guide ... get if you call 911.  In certain medical emergencies (I hear sports ... !). MedLinks I am one of these!  Basically, a MedLink is a student

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it ... . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  questions would you want to ask your future classmates? Like I said, we ... I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  plans for how she'd apply her programming skills to her physics studies. I ... -door neighbors for the summer. I would be living at tEp and Denisse would be ... good memories. One thing I loved about our dynamic was how much we could

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... them would return in the fall as freshmen and I was thrilled that I would

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012