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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…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a ... him when he sliced me in the face! Then I beat him up and kicked him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  .” This short summary, however, does not nearly encapsulate how FREAKING ... now know is named Nora) and her mom sitting somewhat near us. And as the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  , activities involving precision didn’t come naturally to me. The cookies I baked ... studying something cool would make me happy. I spent that next summer in ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... . (when i told her this, she said she was going to mail me a bunch of ... , but they do make me feel better by virtue of being something familiar

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... 'interesting now leave me alone' I don't think I've given myself the proper time ... how people comfort me by telling me that everyone else's lives have been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... alarm clock that will pull me out of bed with only five hours of sleep. I ... sea of people brought together on a mundane Thursday night. It hit me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  find three programs that allowed me to travel for 1-3 months and I can ... again. I am so thankful that MIT gave me this part of my life. My twin host sisters (Shirley and Samira, 6 years old) who always made me laugh

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  seeing them beeping and booping away made me realize I should probably ... me through graphs and pigeonhole principles. I secretly really loved 6 ... it. Seems like we have a running trend here. 6.08 showed me that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  Caroline P., but all my friends at MIT call me Powers (which is my last name ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... ! (either way -- I'll draw it out of you anyways ;) but help me help you! :D ... with years of practice and experience. Trust me - it's not hard to tell

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... the wedding, after the rest of my family left, she took me out to lunch and dinner, made me breakfast (despite my insistence that she really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it ... hear me sing, but they're listening to me sing, and judging the quality ... didn't delete it, though. I let it sit in my inbox and stare up at me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  around me, or even the opinions I have of others. I am currently taking 9 ... freshmen, which has helped me take a step back often. I don't even know what ... simply, which has reminded me about myself. If you know me in real life

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... climber next to me what to do, and he goes up onto the wall. I watch him

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  our lord 2022 -- many people have made fun of me for this, but it's like a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... circles. Like most people, Call Me Maybe was my first exposure to Carly Rae

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I have gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is ... takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... 't enjoy academic learning as much as my peers. Don't get me wrong, I love

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom: nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020