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  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  experiences I’ve had this year. When I got into MIT back in December, I ... there, so that’s a pretty good sign I’ll fit in. :) I also loved how every time I met a new person it went sort of like this: Me

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  recently.   I came home from college having all these plans for how I would ... story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... . I don’t think I’ve driven more than 2 hours in my entire life without

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA ... bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in the very least, good quality tortillas in a super market. Not only did I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... presumably the odds that I would have the same birthday as any random person is ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little over a year ago in July 2019, I wrote a blog post for my summer program

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... -recorded) the two classes I was taking in January. The [annotation note ... taking it online in the middle of the woods on two hours of sleep (yes. I

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  did not anticipate how much time I would be spending on career ... still chugging along in the background. Still, I'm looking at senior ... would have a healthy amount of work. However, something I did not factor

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  nine months. I’m not sure how to fix that. Chucking a writing class in ... ’ll be happy in the moments where I feel like I’ve learned something. If I ... weren’t flowing. I know how my novels take shape, and I know that working

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  ’t that close to that many people. In all honesty, I thought things would be ... acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... —one hour til nearby dining halls would close. I put my work away. I pulled on ... entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  again, I would in a heartbeat. [Photo credit to Sherry '15!] 2.00b ... how our toy would physically work. The sketch model on the right was our ... I know it's been a long time since I've posted a blog... but I'm back

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... that I would have such a reaction when I informed people about what I do ... of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to think the hardest part is initiation. as in, everything would work out if i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... there was nothing i would rather be doing than economics research. it ... enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... in the place you would like the glass to break (it becomes the weakest ... necklines, as opposed to 3 in a general snowman. Whatever, I thought. I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  would be. how very many lives you must be able to hold in your hands, if ... I fell behind, sometimes I would combine prompts, and I actually ... when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i ... was being a bit unfair; i probably would’ve had a similar reaction

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Report et al, I would suspect that your Midyear Report is in your ... and I do not know if MIT would accept score reports in March! Right ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  thought of where I would be if I had chosen the fork in the road marked ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook ... obvious, I would think, is that I'm not even actually serious about becoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008