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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  , giving me two more names: Amanda L. '17 and Joie C. '17. Joie did not remember, but Amanda did; it was Nathan P. '15. Nathan gave me Ben Y. '12 ... in the room proper either, but they each gave me names of three more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles ... together in one group, while I was left alone in the other. Giving me no ... me to the next puzzle (Jebby and Aiden got a different puzzle). My

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... ’s always fire, so trust me on this one."]tuna[/annotation], all [annotation ... asked me who my favorite jazz band player is, I will forever say Leslie

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... his request) below. Hi Chris, I wonder if you remember me. I had ... -ordinate my learning mostly from [a] Planetarium in New Delhi. Me & other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective ... exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... so ahead of me, so maybe I should just study something different.” I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... loves me.” “Nonsense,” he replied, “I love you.” “I want to go home,” I said. “My mommy loves me.” Then I watched an episode of America’s Next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  -Year-Old Ana, Hello! It’s me~ Hm, actually, maybe I should introduce myself. Let ... California right now. You like the snow, but, trust me, cold seeping into your ... it’s true. I’m a bit amused at the prospect of you being angry at me

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  head that tells me I have to work, that begs me to find the concentration ... home in new york?"]clear as day,[/annotation] part of me still doesn ... drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  Petey asked me to write something to kick off the big anniversary ... culture at a critical moment in my career. It taught me so much about the ... , give or take, when we started the admissions blogs. Yes, this makes me

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried ... department tells me all the time that physics is hard for him, so he routinely ... very special!), then shove it open with your shoulder (if you’re me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . Nevermind all the doubts people were throwing at me, I was doubting myself ... love with the idea. Chance-me scorers worsened my confidence. I did ... begged the TA's for a regrade and they finally gave me a 60, subtracting

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  do you want to live well? B: Because living well would make me happy. A ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B: Because I want to do things that are interesting to me. A: Why do things

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  me some notes from his travels abroad, I asked if I could blog them to ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 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.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... 't a big deal for me, then. I was still healthy.   It's at this ... 's from then on." Well, correct me if I'm wrong but life doesn't usually

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  scene that really stuck with me was the last scene in the film ... me that night as I went hoarse from yelling. I was afraid of what was ... I had been gone, and deep down a part of me truly feared that going

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer ... . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  people moved down. Other people started finishing earlier than me. Other people had wpm’s over 100. Other people started beating me at SET. Other people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... most generous of "chance me" scorers would only give me a 50% chance of ... me. I played it again. And again. And again. Each time I played it, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... -coherent content and an intro paragraph beginning with Lorem ipsum to make me think I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010