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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  going?[/caption] One I remember the dozens of things people told me about MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be ... happened. But can she? Two During the Activities Midway, which happens near

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... the strange buttons and knobs and labels. My aunt helped me figure out how to use a washer and a dryer, and some tiny part of me was doubtful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  David and Ali, but I’m especially grateful to them for taking me under ... methods, but David and Ali taught me how to actually approach research questions rigorously.  Last semester, they took me on my first [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  near to their daughters due to incomplete detachment of their anchor ... the scaly bastard doesn't haunt me in my dreams for making him Like That.

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  “there are so many ways to be a spider”.[annotation note="adam told me ... through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... m.701, drawing for designers. the class gave me a brief window of time

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days ... -but-not-completely-finished draft, written by me, living in an email from May 2019. Oof.) 11.04 am

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But JavaScript really doesn’t vibe with me, and thinking about asynchronicity and promises ... that there was hope for me yet. It's also pretty cool that my experiences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  (including me) have never been to CPW before, so we're eager to see what it ... 't feel quite the same though, at least for me. It seems like the community ... RSI experience had offered me the first chance I had ever had to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... , anything. all around me i tried to ignore the news, because i didn’t want to ... news dangling in front of me, tempting me to pay attention, taunting. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  out, expecting fuzz. What I saw made me nearly black out."]roach and ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old ... fondness, as a decade of so many Firsts that made me the person I am today

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -001. Anyway, let me set the scene: one day in the summer of 2020—at the height ... our building; he ushered me in and we exchanged an awkward hello after

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  like me here’ and ‘there are people different from me here.’ No student ... nearly 30 years — Zachary Bleemer estimates that passing of California ... attended college and taught me to count in Ladino — I still remember when I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the ... I can’t bring them with me. This is what Jeffery’s half of the room ... ’s uncertain Won’t you hold it down with chains? Oh won’t you break me now So I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  drops off right near me. Biking/Skateboarding/Rollerblading/etc Biking is ... 't have to live, breathe, work, cry, eat, and sleep at MIT, which allows me ... entire life". It's been hugely instrumental in making me feel like I'm not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  me, saying Yes instead of No. But I forced myself to stay true to my ... , new me. It was time to finally take it all in—one moment, one ... me, too, to take on a new approach to balancing my academic and social

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  through the whole thing made me think, wow, I need to write about this. I ... ] the weekend before Thanksgiving. To me, the easiest way to explain ... ,120 were first-years. This means that there were nearly double the number of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  them. Trust me, I've been there. But luckily for you, I've spent years ... out they didn't put nearly enough! always add a bit of acid to balance ... [annotation note="ask me about my vegan ziti recipe that 9/10 of guests

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  's trying to fly out of the city. I quickly check in, and the kiosk tells me ... incoming storm) they've oversold their rooms for the night. So they send me ... ) call, and let me know that they are shutting down for the weekend due to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  : Tony, Kevin, Lingyi, Erin, Isa (front), me, Richard (front), Randy (top ... pop from the MechE Lounge speakers, which nearly drowned out the ... needs — I felt so panicked, and only adrenaline pushed me through. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... , but also for others like me who have struggled with the same questions ... software company near Seattle, which I’ll call Company X, and was on track to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021