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• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  because that's just how the cookie crumbled. That realization helped me beat ... , there's quite a nice rush associated with it, like when a TA handed me an anesthetized mouse and had me conduct a perfusion to fix its brain, a surgical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  me: #5: Understand the true meaning of IHTFP. The five letters of ... technical setting, but it amazes me to see how the lessons have reached into ... with my writing. Ideas would hit me at night and I jumped out of bed to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . - Experience has suggested to me that this, much like using NaBH4 to reduce an ... Particularly Enthusiastic Chemist: "YOU GUYS DON'T ASK ME ENOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT ORGO! YOU SHOULD ASK ME MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT ORGO!!!! I LOVE HELPING

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... environment, which helped me during the past month when I was conducting tedious ... opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast ... given me my freshman year of high school; everybody had told me that ... snagged one of the bikes for me. That afternoon, I came by to check it out

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  heavy and shipping would cost me my soul. Other than that, it's a good way ... ! ME: You too! (awkward silence) ME: ...hey, you wanna see my high school yearbook? BEN JONES: JESS! ME: BEN JONES! How are you? It's nice to finally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  So here's the new plan: instead of me always spending all week ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to ... - thanks! Now I can link my parents here so they can stop asking me how the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  masse in Cambridge, and the prefrosh excitement around me was so palpable ... the class I’m worst at), it became clear to me that our friends who we ... comprised of more excited upperclassmen than prefrosh, but it lifted me out of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely ... "]borderline [/annotation]failing two classes after a rocky start, and it made me pretty ... , randomly occurring moments of me having brain cells, and my chem class

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  left to be sad. maybe the situation is just making me distant from ... have set up within me about college, shaping my experience before even ... explanation doesn’t sit right with me. part of me refuses to believe that this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  am sad about leaving. What has made me less sad is thinking about the ... ="attachment_53481" align="aligncenter" width="768"] me and Olivia S. '20 figuring out ... bug for me PLEASE in central square where tosci's used to be PLEASEHi, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  four-course home-made dinner made for me, and one evening, I learn to ... was anything to judge by, you might leave a little bewildered. Me: Ben ... wilds of suburban New Mexico. Me: ...Ben, where are you ACTUALLY from? Ben

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me ... believing people when they say they believe in me. this was especially hard ... , and my last lab meeting, people kept telling me how proud they were of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  , with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school ... waited. Part of me didn’t think Marla could ever be fixed. But another part

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  I start crying, and my guidance counselor on the phone tells me what I ...  more than that. MITAdmissions saw me: a first-gen math nerd from ... . MITAdmissions took a chance on me. (0:37-0:50): "So give me just one more chance

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  where I am going with my classes….or my life. So this makes me think ... realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at ... !). They tell me that it sometimes takes industry exploration to figure that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  life. And she cut me off in the middle to say "Cam, those are things ... me. I just happen to wake up everyday and go to class and see friends. Parties happen to me and I meet people and I talk to people and I happen to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other institutions, so this might be much easier for me than those at ... generalization, but the realization was enough to turn me off from these type of ... computations. This was quite irritating to me, because WolframAlpha already

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  me from falling asleep but not so loud that it warrants me coming out ... -tier athlete many times more fit than me, can have his heart stop working suddenly, the same can happen to me at any time if damar hamlin’s collapse

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  .  It felt like a tragedy, then a failure.  Here's a bit about me. I ... support staff, I got 1.75 As, an OX, and a LateDrop. Ask me about MIT ... 't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022