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• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  in that environment, I would have to put on a “mask” to fit into that ... moment, how long I would continue to wear that mask before it started to ... how much I loved music; Addison came across genuinely invested in

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... closely in 21L.009 Shakespeare my Freshman year, so I was I excited to ... fear that I would take a terrible picture and then post it on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My ... , I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  in figuring out what I would do this summer, saying "uhhh probably a ... was also concerned with how I was personally enjoying my time in Mexico ... Hey Internet, how’s it going? Good? Good! Personally, I’ve had a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  in your life?” And, I was like “How do you know that?” and they had ... fleeting in the light. I don’t know; I really like impressionism. So, how ... In February, I interviewed Holly H. ’18, about her art gallery in the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on ... to major in anything evenly divisible by three. I am not making any of ... consumed my entire reality. I’ll probably lament this detachment in the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... , and I'm buying shoes, filling my amazon wishlist with gear, and climbing ... here in Boston. And then the third, the fourth....etc. Why exactly I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  , and i would have this dull tension in my abdomen that would persist for ... how to either solve or live with my problems in spite of everything, i ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  class in high school! This… is unimaginable, what else would I be?? I got ... the Van Allen Radiation Belt HOW COOL WAS THAT?! I was in. (But it ... space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the third week or so, which would make that test the “midterm”. I don’t like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... public transportation and in bed, and one on what I do at work. on where I live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  clicking and dragging it forwards in time, whereas previously i would have ... things like how hosed i am, scheduling conflicts, or randomly changing my ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  on bold ideas that I find MIT instills in students so well. His Hacker ... you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and laughed. The last I had heard from him, Hassan had been in New York, so I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  squeeze in a few more statics equations between lectures. I would sit alone ... How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  realized that the big school i got into would actually be better for me, but ... job now i think a lot about how games can be good for people write ... to where i am now i hope that i will get to show other people how much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  extensively on this website and in many blog posts. Plus, you wouldn’t want any ... .) Instead, this post is about how I, as a person, interact with that process ... where I built in dedicated time for healthier behaviors—like setting aside

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in English, which I feared would make me seem like an entitled American who ... intimidating-looking cafe I saw in the neighborhood of my hotel, asked for a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  part of the line was confined to "Hmm, I wonder how many people are in ... memory. Anyway, I learned in high school that excuses are like dirty ... day of the past decade. I helped teach Susan Hockfield how to play Wii

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he ... was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  how I came up with that completion percentage for Sidequest 10. In short ... my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019