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  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... crowds, especially for big releases. The last crowd I was in that was this ... lately. Another essay I read recently talked about the conflict in Northern

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... leaves. I put on rain clothes and walk to the admitted student welcome in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  classes this semester and am now in fewer units than I've ever been at MIT!"]where ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... be the standard spelling at MIT, although I can't really figure out why

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  in the future. I can just do my best now and see where that takes me ... effort I put in to make a change. How long can I hope that this time ... qualities of the game that you can't avoid, in the same way that I can't avoid

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Arizona desert, where I spent the remainder of my pre-college days in the ... cognitive sciences). If you can’t find me in class, I’m commonly found with my ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  backpack!" "Nope, I'm sorry, you can't get in." Wonderful. Security 2 ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It ... the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... important things in life is to be at peace with where you are and what you ... could tell you that MIT is not the only place where you can live your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ...  size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... : I love that I can describe this problem in a single sentence: I want

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... come and the leaves come and they leave and i stand by the tree where you ... cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last &

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and ... intertwined.   I remember high school as a blur of grey; in one word, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only ... believe in hope I believe I can touch the sky if I try. With you beside me ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... 'm glad that we ended up going. It's unlike anywhere else I've seen in my ... actually a recurring motif throughout the Passion Facade, although I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go outside again from waves: I watched my wild youth Disappear in front of my ... get the feeling that I'm right where I belong Why am I the one always

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... pretty well on the psets, where I can look up what terms like "marginal ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... catch up. I feel like I am constantly running in a race where I am doomed ... I. eulogies are beautiful but  can we talk about leaves before fall

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . "Kith, I disagree. If you get in, you can handle staying in, for the most ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... -bagger - I've dabbled in computational, systems, cognitive, cellular, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  responsibilities, I missed a critical time in my youth where I could have molded ... When I think about my earlier angry tears, I can’t tell where my anger is ... myself I have other skills I can bring, and I’m at college to learn.   In

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the ... , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012