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  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  . MIT feels a lot better now that I have this kind of confidence in myself. When I’m up late the night before a deadline I try to focus on the task ... class. Finally, as a fun comparison, here I am looking grumpy in first

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  than just dorms in a hall, and also I totally just ruined the joke by ... lot of food and I'm kind of still in a food coma, so I'm not going to ... a hamburger patty and bacon all just to testify to what was, should

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  , so I missed a good deal before and after winter break. I wrote and ... piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... being called foreign in a place I consider home, or about the differences

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... interested in me. I was a very good young runner, but I wasn't one of the best ... your GPA was 4.0 or 3.92. I saw that there was a thread before asking

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  drop date. I came into MIT with a lot of hopes and ideas of what I was ... semester at MIT. I was in a house where I had sour relationships with my ... started thinking a lot about choice in this context. Who am I spending my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  where I really think I should’ve gone to a liberal arts or film or art ... semester with the Fellowship (which, in turn, ties into what I want to ... digital media. So I think this should be a great couple of months.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  am grateful for my legs. I was never been a runner before in my life ... aardvark in a Korean Air airline lounge. (I may be 26 but I am not above ... put my college years in a time capsule and save them in a way that I am

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for ... a serial, because I finished this story in about an hour, and honestly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave ... and I calculated what it'd take to build a raft to ride our couch down

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... for me even when I feel I don’t deserve it. In others, I see a jumbled ... clear decline; I see a before, and I see an after, and it just makes me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a ... . Romantically. Thoughts crept in that I hadn't considered before - might - might

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... carrying a fair amount of stuff around everyday. I always like seeing what ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . Probably a mix. We spread out, eyeing each other excitedly. I wondered what ... let loose. It only lasted for a few chaotic seconds before I doubled ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... to finally 7. (in reality I should have been 9, but that's another long ... made in the column will be fleshed out a bit more here. I will also point

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP ... . A ten-day game in IAP sounds like a lot, but I enjoyed every hour of ... "] found in a basement[/caption] I love shadowruns. I loved the feeling of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  I don’t even know what to ask. I know I need to give them a heads up ... effort, just in case I end up being a borderline case of C-. But I also ... humbled me so much, this semester. I don’t know what’s going on in the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... tethers [annotation note="or us, because I am in a distinct kind of liminal

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , in a studio whose artistic vision and ethos we trust, being equally ... we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure ... felt the satisfaction I felt when clearing out a section of a map in a ... their friends, commuters engaged in a book, and even though I’ve seen it a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020