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• 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…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... once while he was on the ground, just for good measure. I saved that ... THROUGH MY LOWER LIP for the sake of donating blood on Thursday. How's that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  awful.  "Oh my gosh, yes!!" Take the picture. "We look so good in this ... out of here. Shit, where did she go? I frantically look around for my ... . "Thanks for the invite, have fun." And I found refuge in a quiet dorm with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  inspiration.” I looked at him for a few seconds and realized that he was dead ... was perhaps, then, the best kind of pressure that made me run for my ... podium-caliber rankings for a single meet), my run with the team was a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  to know what the place actually looks like. Right. So here it is ... insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for ... kids, and you'd be surprised how often the argument, "It could save his

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday ... to use the litter box, been to the vet and had their sex determined for ... kittens" Thank god for the internet, really. JP Licks being JP Licks

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  be penalized for not taking AP classes. That said, the committee looks ... of all the resources available. Therefore, they will look for evidence ... high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  MIT and Boston are in the middle of the actual Snowpocalypse, so what better time to whip up a blog about the beginning of classes? The lighting was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you ... for “50 Best” representative of the actual applicant pool ... looked over all the other parts of my application and everything college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  is the lecture for 6.UAT oral communication. this is an unusual class ... activity we did for the class was "introducing ourself" to our smartphone: we ... eng, who led the lecture, put emphasis on having a hook, a reason for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  !); second, smile, because the word “snoozed” looks funny on the phone screen ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  the furthest limits that I’ve ever taken myself to. Looking back, I ... while. I think for the most part, my freshman year was spent dismantling the mindsets that I held for granted back in high school. I stopped

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... out at all for me.  But in the end, with help and advice from Kirsten L ... ??? ? units And for the sake of completeness, here's my fairly standard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  here. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about ... until the first or second week of May. What has the waitlist looked like ... from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X or major Y

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  with vegetables and tofu--I cook for myself a lot during the school year ... definitely missed eating meat nonstop for the first week, but after that I didn ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  mechanical pencil, and the ensuing distraction becomes a euphemism for ... iCal. The schedule blocked out that Sunday night for studying x ... shaved in the pattern of “MIT” in the back: This would all look much

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Harvard. This semester, I took advantage of that for the first time, and cross-registered for two classes: one on Irish folklore, the other a ... essays and commentaries as well. This is exactly what I was looking for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the ... best decisions you can make when you move. Luckily for me, the Admissions ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... that if we don't show up for the warm-up, we can't get credit for the ... attended a one-hour body sculpt class for the public. The next morning, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009