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  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  duplex. Can you come fix it? No. Anonymous said: SOMEWHERE... there's a ... the summer), but I'm not sure where I could find it... Sean said: So..can ... college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in Boston have fun! There's a lot going on this weekend, including: Pulse ... !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  ; There was food, photo booths, a beautiful view, and, most importantly: A ... . The year's design is debuted at Ring Premier, a festive celebration ... grand reveal. Some students, including me, don't know that this is a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... love Next. 3E is a place where I’ve found people I adore and a close ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... Note: Anika drew Anika and Jebby drew Jebby. If you can't tell who ... .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  . If I start to feel tired I speed up so I can get to "that tree up there ... way more than you'd expect a comic book store to have. Which was weird ... going to run a HALF MARATHON!! I live in BOSTON!! This is so freaking cool

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  -story roofdeck. There's a kite hanging from the ceiling and a piano anyone can ... , as I remember them: "You can take almost anything away from a man. His ... green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  . Plus food after walking a lot is god's greatest gift to man. There was a ... and this was the perfect opportunity: there was nothing but a faint buzz ... little else, and perhaps this is why I jogged about a mile before realizing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... here when you get back.) i had a list of distractions on hand, so i can ... , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  .) Besides, a work is never truly completed. You can always edit blog posts, or ... means that if you tell a friend you can’t talk to them right now, or can ... yourself as much as others love you! There’s a point to learning how to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  around at the airport can be a drag.. and having no one to talk to makes it ... behold, she was a prefrosh too! Amanda, if you're reading this it was quite nice to meet you!!! Add me on facebook ;) I also met Ameesh, a high

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I'd post some pictures. Plus, you can use the Z Center for free during the ... of treadmills: Walk a little further and you reach the weight area

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  . Typically there is a "well" of potential energy, and a certain point at which ... ). [annotation note = "The 'k' is a joke, albeit not a funny one. I was inspired by ... Cartesian vectors, except in polar coordinates, so there's a vector pointing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  competition to see whose engine ran the fastest. This year there is a new ... 've started my class. If you're a mechanical engineer, attend MIT, and are a ... anything else you might need. While a lot of people who decide to be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  Rockwell Cage (W33). This event is a lot of fun, and you'll see many familiar ... CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is ... 's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  . “Haha, that’s a real scary-looking trash can you guys have there ... Engineering Laboratory). 6.2410 is a lab-based class where we build physical ... is technically a quantum process. But those don’t count! What I really

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  know nobody in either ensemble, you should come. PPS: There is one ... . Anyway, Dido and Aeneas is a beautiful beautiful opera, and you should find ... bios, you see things like "Aeneas is a first-year Ph.D. student in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually ... students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  positions where I feel like I can have a direct impact on humanity.   ... ? This is a question I don’t think I thought about too hard when I was ... corporations. Consumer pressure can change the market, and after Fenty, a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  way houses can haunt them back. A house can love you or hate you, and ... stagnate with an old version of myself.   . . .   Painting is a ... my neighbors. "You should reach out to Emma, see if you can hang out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021