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• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  in past years I would take on lots of scheduled tasks even over IAP and ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... the anxieties I mentioned in my last few posts, I think I've made (some

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... more energy efficient. I did theater tech in high school, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  for free. The happiest (and stinkiest) I've been in years. Eating ... . The Crest bus has stations for you to brush your teeth. I say, "When in ... each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... there are people who are immensely better than I am at math in every

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in ... make any progress. In those moments, I would forget that sometimes the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  assumptions about how social connections work are wrong. I never assumed I would ... up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  things I was interested in. Well, that would have been a bit of a stretch ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with ... keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... robot competition, and tomorrow I will take my first class in Toy Product

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my ... studying something cool would make me happy. I spent that next summer in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I could improve", that would probably not bode well for my future. I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  it all in as high school Cami would have done, I talked to people about ... that they've let me do. Simultaneously, my heart sank, as I realized how ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  Farai asked "I was wondering how you get by day by day with the ... have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  drinks cool. I opened the fridge in the middle of the night to grab ... to be hardcore and sleep outside in the snow. Sam and I were among ... picture, because I told everyone to gather in and then held my camera out at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  international student!!" I would recommend having your essay mailed in along with ... tapes should showcase your talents. I would send in anything in which you ... probably don't have it. I would recommend sending in an additional copy of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  , “typical” doesn’t describe anyone here, and in GEL I’m going to learn how to ... I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... Physics test (I also apparently don’t know how many AP Physics tests there

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ... Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  class, something that would've slaughtered me in high school; although I ... the exam would even cover, and yet I walked in there and took it as if I ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... realized just how meager my high school preparation had been. I had never ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... boss says "he's here this month while MIT is in hibernation"), but I don

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... environment that would let me follow my own intellectual curiosity in intriguing ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017