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• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  struck me as a possible school. “well, when a school like THAT emails you ... featuring me in a guest post so i can go full circle and share my own story ... being hosted by a D1 team), the opening height was pretty high for me, and

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  should legally adopt me. /hj I thought circuit theory was the [annotation note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... ” sounded to me and how much I loved Physics 1 / Mechanics, astrophysics might

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  friends, and then it hit me. I could do a portrait of one of my friends, and ... saying. Bukunmi and her friends were very patient with me as I followed her ... pro, and so much more. But, whatever fear kept me from starting videos

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  playing on me. You will have the most freeing, most independent, most experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... that people would watch me play video games was something so exciting and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  give me an opportunity to snap back at you, but I'm above that. I'm above ... . Then, at 2:58 PM, just two short hours later, CJ sent me a message that ... be approved, but seeing that email gave me so much joy. I placed the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... 't have been any reason to worry. instead, it worries me more the fact that ... situation around me, tell myself that it's the pandemic bringing me down, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in ... me? how hard is MIT *really*? i dont know if i'm smart enough to go ... take time out of their schedules to help me. Even with undergraduate TAs

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  features.  i am happy to report that spotify has only continued to satisfy me ... really like the band, so this was something special for me, and i made ... remind me of my SO :) slow dance - slow, cute songs that i can whip out if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  , family, friends, random stranger standing next to me on the bus). I’m the ... that interval, several things were happening to me. High school gets ... that should have been enough. For whatever reason, it wasn’t. Part of me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  During my college application season, the adults around me (in ... didn’t help me at all when I was actually writing my essays. If you are ... expressed concerns about my essays, my parents literally said to me, “your SAT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  , because it reminds me that I have strategies, and makes me feel less like I ... actually follow it or not, at least allows me to calm down and start doing ... the SAT, which partly inspired this post. Let me tell you, I am your go

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  grade science teacher encouraged me to. I was very ambitious: I wanted to ... 's the same attitude that drives people to e-mail me with questions like ... in October, and it was important to me for a lot of reasons that I ace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  . I did not want to repeat a class – that would put me way behind; I ... easy for me. I then coasted through Math class without really learning the material. The assessments did not really force me to learn; I only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  me all the possible ways my life was capable of stretching and ... unassuming moments of the weekend that stuck with me the most. I was alone ... people who, smiling and sporting thrifted clothing, struck me as friendly

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  bought more cds. the first thing that krazy bob asked me when i walked ... , i said, "0 feet?" "CORRECT!" he gave me a playing card. "you're the ... same sense of valuing the realness and weight of things is what draws me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  first sign of stress or discomfort. This usually looks like me spending ... ="HI BRY!!!."]Bry[/annotation], recently told me she bought tickets to run in ... ! The race was a month out, which gave me just enough time to train, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... . It has virtually no application to me or my life, and I will probably ... best of me and I looked up how rare it was. I’d seen grey and brown

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... ."]MEng[/annotation] student now. People have told me that “being an MEng student is literally ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a ... he (very patiently) coached me through a game. It took an hour - I ... partner should accept me as a major handicap. Another friend paused, asking

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the ... places fill me with quiet wonder, the sort that floods up your chest with ... almost hurts your eyes. Standard wooden desk and bed. Me and my two

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022