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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Let me back up. As you may already know, this summer, I'm working with ... , meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... student named Ilana, was all too happy to help me find Eduardo - a post

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  MIT interview was with an elderly alum, known to me as Mr. Neighbours ... me. Nevertheless, he was nice if not particularly dynamic. He entered ... helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... . a couple moments later, Jett hands me the cube and asks if i know what

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  ’t want me to succeed, no matter what platitudes might escape their lips ... , because I was surrounded by people who wanted to see me fail. This dynamic ... even say that, to suggest that other people might be envious of me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  in NV has given me a newfound appreciation for the silly, donut ... questionably tinted couches of Loop and lolling about until someone joined me in ... themselves right next to me. It was one of my favorite things, where, after a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  . Tearing up a little as my parents dropped me off, napping the flight away ... weeks if they left Canada to drive me to Boston. Fact 3: the school ... could not enter the US with me. Then I had a crazy idea. This was in late

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  interesting songs, at least to me, is who’s crazy/my psychopharmacologist and i ... humorous, but this verse does strike me. counseling is weird, in some sense ... comforting, but sometimes it does weird me out. these past few weeks a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  me thinking. I've come to this realization, over the past six weeks or ... good thing if what it creates for me is happiness. It does not need to be ... because it's what lets me keep living and doing everything else. I think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  think that's something that really says a lot about me. i've questioned a ... i've been learning was what would eventually lead me to my downfall. i ... math, appreciating the thoughts and perspectives its given to me. i am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very ... people around me and the world in general” and “what should I be taking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  school visited me. I boarded a plane to New York, spent a day interviewing ... the semester, it occurred to me that I owe a lot to ancient Greece, to ... semester. Instead, I am reading a 2007 book2 that tells me to distrust

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling powers]: Yes. Lisa: REALLY? Me: Yes. Lisa: Woah! The second time someone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right ... first time. Here’s me with a bucket:          We finally moved ... that time revolve around me trying to learn English. Before I started

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  friends Tina, Teresa, and Caroline (all freshmen, like me) baked Ben several ... was writing. The conversation went something like this: Me: "Hey Ben ... Stu..." Me: "Aw, Ben..." Ben: "...and a meeting at eleven..." Me: "Ben

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  down to this. I know what's best for me. I know that what's best for others isn't always best for me. I know if others judge me for doing what's best for me, I can and should ignore them. I know when I don't know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  and then sticks around forever. At least, not for me. A social circle is ... with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  i hate when people ghost me, especially over text or email. not when ... to talk to me but are choosing not to because they assign low priority ... , and they’re also issues my parents and other adults told me would be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened ... was checking IDs glanced at me and said, "You're definitely under twenty ... first notes of "Love Me More" drifted in, Mitski stepped out, and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  , lighthearted, and brimming with stories from his many travels. he taught me how to play shogi and how to tend to his garden, and he took me all over Nara to show me his favorite sights. I visited my host family every time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all ... friends, who’d known me back when I failed each and every single one of the ... -ups), calling me athletic. I was surprised, too, that S and I could now joke about

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024