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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... of how far I've come. I remember the sleepless nights in high school ... out of fear that people would judge me for how weak I was and also just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  always wear these in Bavaria? Because they are kind of uncomfortable. I know this because one time, as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, I ... something that you see every day in Bavaria. Am I allowed to say transvestite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... ,000 miles prior. The cost, even at the voc tech, would've been in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been ... was pretty emotional, although I didn't show it as much. In the weeks ... would probably be the only "free" summer I had since everything was remote

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  demanding I finish this post in which he addressed me as "kamber", and I knew ... before finals I went to see The Arcade Fire perform at the Orpheum in ... had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  . For the past few weeks, I've forgotten to buy juice, so any time I ... pineapple. So, I mean, I totally ran out of all those, and had to buy some ... google image search I went, and typed in "GFP." Two hours and 28 slides

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  So…I'm not sure exactly where September went, but in plain English ... rushed to the art supply store to buy materials that I didn't end up using ... quicker and go to sleep? and I’m just like, yo, mom, that’s not how it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  your hand. Now combine it. See how much imaginary fun you're having? I ... badass. In fact, shortly before the concert I made this flyer advertising ... , for a Christmas special on how much it'd actually cost to buy all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I ... ="442"] collective solidarity in eating this egg (would not recommend ... job detailing what ingredients and how much we needed to buy for our

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... would pit myself against the world.  Half hour passed, I got off the giant winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  trying to debug the worst code i’ve written in my life." hopefully you get the gist. this game popped up in my head today as i was digging through ... programs from events i’ve gone to in the past year or so. the exams were an

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange ... Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... felt a connection with the team who would review my application.  I ... career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT ... and naively thought we would be fine biking across the bridge in a ... Tuesday, I went apple picking! Me and friends in the hay ride! Every year

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in ... , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old person here. In fact, I am 35 years old, almost two times the age when I ... like once or two times a year. I would be sitting down in the Large

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  the exact numbers; I couldn't tell you even if I thought it would be ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  Corner Theater?! I seriously don't think you get how exciting this is. I ... to Coolidge Corner, buy his book, which I'd been meaning to pick up for ... appearing in the verbal section. I thought I could make this blog educational

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005