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  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  miles away, and i was left to fend for myself in this world where ... difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good ... /classmates and that i can evaluate my performance in a subject by my own standards

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  life where advice can never replace lived experience, but I wanted to try ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... most burning question I have in my mind is as an individual, what can I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  meaning: Last summer, I worked in an Asian clinic, where I realized the ... Mandarin. Eventually, I hope I can work in the field of public health ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the 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 ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... 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

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean ... future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  hoped to do in order to get me to where I needed to be. Embracing that ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  , and I'm in a position where I could hide behind my hetero relationship ... at least I have some security in mind that I can come out to them ... thing is being organized (thanks Petey!), so in the meantime I can throw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  doing so I realized that I wasn't exactly interested in where that planet ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that ... but exactly when and where I already was. When I got deferred, I stayed ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative ... I mentioned, can easily be replaced) then I will consider the project

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  progress I always expected. I don’t feel like I’m in a position where I can ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ...   In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about ... 's "REX", or Residence Exploration, put on by students, where you can play D

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... starting line, where actual corrals, i.e. lines of metal bars, will split the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  than software engineering. I still don’t exactly know where I’ll be in ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021