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• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  flashes of thunder and lightning had me jumping out of my seat. The museum ... requires me to drive by open pastures of cows, I might cave. We'll see. So ... JP Licks. [] Now it's not normal that I have two near

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  MIT admissions process look at this as a factor? Why? It seems to me ... /teenage/youngadulthood years preparing for getting into a competitive Ivy League college. Let me ... . Eventually, this lead me to MIT. In all these ways, that summer program opened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . But let me explain a bit about what goes on in chapter rooms during Rush ... fraternity, and the brothers of my fraternity met for nearly five hours. Still ... out on my physics psets, and helped me to secure the needed 85.2% (0

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  it to me, I shrugged and thought, Sure, why not. There are certain ... what you need to hear. For me, Wolf 359 was one of those things. My ... captivated by the plot. What made Wolf 359 so special for me was that it felt

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  red and pink burst through the door. "Excuse me, professor!" The first ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and ... oh two two" Electric fields and charges: mystery Unknowable to me in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  though he drove me crazy, he helped me learn a ton of Spanish. (If we were ... (would) do that when (if) we passed notes.) Anyway, Mónica showed me around a little, and then took me to Puerta del Sol. I'd been emailing with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  also be beneficial for my research mentor to write me a recommendation in ... decision?" Robb helped me out: "Rushil, in a blog entry...just a few entrys ... Chem credit?" Jessie helped me out with this one, writing "...and to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  have more school ahead of me, but it just will not be the same. although ... leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years ... large part of myself to other people around me. i wanted to learn what it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  many people took this flight, and nearly everyone on the plane got an ... needs help walking now. They raised me since I was born and stayed in the ... "] my sister dreaming up an outfit for me[/caption] While I could engage

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  of the Coffee Cow. peak art. articles (12) this is me mostly fooling ... ..."]YOLO."[/annotation] The Poems That Taught Me How to Love about Pablo Neruda's poetry ... Pad. these are mostly me struggling for my life. Cauchy-Schwarz. mandatory

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... fully understand another person bothers me a lot. People are so complex ... level, perhaps even grasping oneself to the fullest extent, is nearly

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  point in moving any further. The universe seemed to be telling me that I ... 't understand myself. I can say how it’s affected me though. I got a bruised ego ... what exactly I want to aim for in the near future. Basically, in the face

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  by a single pixel, and even though I recognize her (me), it's like ... true about me then and remain true now: I don't drink coffee or ... have scars on my earlobes from when 9-year-old me thought I did and then

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  boring to read. I started to re-write them and that’s when it hit me! No ... of being allowed anywhere near this school. In a sort of last attempt ... everything on time, but not me. In general, the period between November 1st and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... " and "me" more than once every few sentences. I cringed a little when I ... very far removed from the circus that was college applications for me and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  left, and I nearly collapsed with fatigue, the people around me said "wow ... exotic to a city girl) his aunt took me to a fashion show, organized by one ... me in on who each model was: "that's the town masseuse!", for example

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  for the day’s riding. For me, the first day consisted of a ride up ... downhill at 8% grade with sweeping views of the desert playa at nearly every ... . '14 joined me in my quest for a downhill KoM, but we got stuck behind a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  last played the trumpet (I brought it to campus with me, but barely ... act was to place the flugelhorn on a stand that Matt lent me, which ... . Finally, I tapped Matt on the shoulder. Me: MATT! THE FLUGELHORN WON'T MAKE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  globe. It was a terrifying moment. Feeling old got me thinking about the ... . Feeling old also got me reflecting on those 19 Junes, Julys, and Augusts*. I ... my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  conflicts with lunchtime in pretty much every single reference frame. Let me ... students are people just like you and me, except that they like to talk about how magnetization is like a covariant vector. Ex: Me: “Hey, can I borrow

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010