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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  was the right choice for me. I've really enjoyed coming home to an ... looking out for you, even when you don't want to inconvience anyone to tell ... 'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush ... pretended it was an LGBTQ+ Pride stripe). I even went with my prefrosh (as in ... prepare for bed in advance because my prefrosh went to sleep before I did

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  a client that was looking for a way to use his iPhone to take steady ... semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website ... has grown into a gem that features the best guest speakers in the field

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  breaks loose, an alter-ego PANIC MODE version of my brain steps in. "Don ... magazine. Insert magazine. Release the bolt. Grip as in a firm handshake ... in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  an essay, I guess. Anxiety: You get picks for lots of things you aren ... things. You’re writing essays, working for an arts foundation, taking ... firehose. Are you even good enough for college in general? Or are you just

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... calling for an ambulance..."Did you call 911 or the campus police?" I asked ... like an emergency at all. I was just taking a ride with some friends in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  taken one course other than the GIRs in my major (7.03). Is there an ... HASS-D: Language)Spanish II - in Madrid!HASS Elective, counts for Spanish ... I took four HASS classes this semester. What, stop looking at me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Last week, I left the country for the first time! This was really important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... from my apartment, but dining in isn't an option at the moment. The food ... noodle/bowl options if you're looking for hot food! [caption id

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... such an opportunity again. When I was eighteen, I signed a job offer in ... good, because back in high school, I had tutored kids for $15/hour and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an ... this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS ... teacher evaluation forms and left the classroom. Around the same time, an email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  family had been completely normal. I felt immense guilt for not checking in ... looking at her face and knowing what would happen in a few hours was ... soon as I stepped in the room where she would be put down, I felt an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  seemed to be. Yeah, it was a day in the life of an MIT student... but it ... DID YOU KNOW? Laverde's Market, nestled in the MIT student center ... was perusing The Tech yesterday evening when I happened upon an article

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  event tickets. At 10:00am and 11:28am respectively, an e-mail came in from ... equipment. I guess they did, though, since the lady in charge looked horrified ... read my book for an hour and a half (did I mention that showing up at 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  throw together an FTC-sized robot.[annotation note="16 in cube/12 lbs were ... actual thing. Like, for lack of a better term, W T F In the beginning ... take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation ... wrong, claiming that it's an ideal material for when scratch resistance is ... , versus asking for help. There will always be people in your classes who

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... my dorm. I collapsed on my bed, keeping in mind to rest for a few ... able to finish this…should I ask for an extension? No…no, I just…I just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... to class, couldn’t squeeze an extra five minutes of wiggle room in to account for mistakes. We should put in our schedules, she said, noon to 1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021