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  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we ... absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  's right there in my pset, how cool is that?? I just know my friends thought I had ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... of how much we love what we do. But on some level I don't think it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  more and more about how the world around me functions. I would always ... I went to that other school, I would end up in academia forever. If I ... be an imperfect fit. I was more interested in how the models being used

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  answer blog that I mentioned. People would come in and they would ask ... ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... would enroll, percentage-wise), but generally it ranges. I'm sure they ... . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and ... ones in my size (I have big feet...). When I finally did find them, they ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  creepy. He asked if I would take a picture of him in a costume he’d just ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... would likely never become anything on their own. I have a similar thing ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and ... my housemates would be good people or not, but i ended up having a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of being in the class. Imagine how excited I was to have made the cut ... . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the ... being in pain myself. Undoubtedly a nice change, I must say. Having just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people ... -less gloves...I even dyed my hair...and I was totally in character. I basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the ... . 7:30PM; Program Begins And how else would the presentation kick off ... rode a few years back along the shores of a beach in Nigeria. By rode, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  's conjecture sums up the year nicely, as of right now. I came in, as countless other MIT undergrads probably have, relatively sure of how smart I was ... Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  more than just a haha???). I would expertly position myself in the ... in a few hours than I have in a few months (I'll blame writer's block ... -lighted many times, I was still definitely in love with him because I could still

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Ethiopian scarves that I have. Mostly, I’ve just learned how to carry home in ... you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... and on my own hours, which was very useful when I was in Pacific Time ... finished a tv show in its entirety; i hope this will be the first. i am

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  what I wanted to do. I felt like it would allow me to doing something in ... anything I would want to do in the public sector would be related to public ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025