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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what guy someone is dating, how much work someone has. I think that's what I ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  find out by chance that two of my friends know each other in ways I would ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... office hours, I feel just a little like a genius. Students come in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at ... , "I never thought I'd be in a fraternity/sorority." K: You might think ...   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  rather than entrepreneurial, in which case I imagine it would be less of a ... In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to ... Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... commencement, here's one insight that I would share with past, present, and ... of that would have happened had I not felt like trying something out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in expecting the stereotype, i.e. that everyone here would be incredibly nerdy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make ... ’t even know how I was doing in the class beforehand. I emailed my TA from ... letter,[/annotation] which makes me question how badly I would’ve done if I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October. That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and ... niche and was growing more comfortable in it daily. I wasn’t just barely

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  of Thrones in one sitting. (I would never do that! I hate Twizzlers ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer ... name. Malingap is talking about what I’m interested in and feeling ... to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles ... might be anymore. I’ll start somewhere and keep talking, how’s that

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... pathogens. (If I were cooler, it would be good to actually replace the broken ... obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016