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  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d learn to love it, to use it as an anchor that keeps me going back for more ... "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... for the "Infinite History" project back in 2016.  ... Earlier today, FIRST — an international youth organization dedicated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  looks like for them p: yeah, i’d agree with that i spent the past week ... . in a previous post i wrote about how an mit.nano class made me feel optimistic about climate change for the first time in my life, and it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  in the archives if you look for titles that start with "Meet the ... in my application because I was still looking around for a suitable ... . ------------------------------------- Anon wrote, "Could you please tell me in details how to apply for an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  of class even started. Still, I’ve put myself in the box of being an ... stress for granted. i had no idea what was in store for me."]first week ... was no longer in a period of artistic drought. For once, I had

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... join me on an all-too-familiar excursion. :-) (a closer look at the ... lifted, and this vacuum attachment moves in for the kill. There are

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  looking for something harder. This was dumb. I decided I wanted to run an ... in with all the other ultra runners. And then it was time for the ultra ... ,000 calories, and running for 19 hours, I collapsed in some rando stranger

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... is a botanist and an author, and Braiding Sweetgrass is "an ... little things we never even would have thought to look out for. I took

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from ... grade, I came across a highlights video for the 2014 Fair held in Los ... with a sense of joy and excitement. And it was contagious. For an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  . I sit down for the first time in what feels like an eternity and turn ... like the wind.   5:25 PM: I look up from my computer for the first ... for the amount of activity I’ve done in the last four hours. By the time

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  (one of?) the last walled city in North America. The place looks very ... shuffling when you fly. In my writing class, we're currently working on an ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... road ahead. I'm still eager for college. I'm looking back on what I ... thought I’d left behind, but really they were just waiting for me here, in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  and drifted in a sea of Rachmaninoff and Debussy for an hour and a half ... displeasing. The whiteness screams out, “Look at me, I exist!” And we reply, “Go ... 18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I’ve ever had to, an effect self-evident in me staying up late on ... 18.01 p-set in his room about two weeks ago. A nasty-looking problem ... I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  for a two whole weeks. I have a room in Puerta del Sol, a new cell phone ... studying in China right now, but thanks to him I already have a bunch of ... tourist advice. Say you're out in an unfamiliar city, and you're getting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a ... reputation for melodrama, but in retrospect, I think that this magnification of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  Science in Food Technology. This food-centric program lasted for decades ... explanation of, and degree requirements for, a Bachelor’s of Science in Food ... taste for MIT's classes by enrolling in our foundational General Institute

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to ... trumpet (take a look in the mirror while blowing up a balloon, and you ... to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011