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  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
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  through the Student Art Association, my wisdom teeth rebelled against me and ... - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip ... binoculars and "scopes" (Davie told me that if I made the mistake of calling it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a small pile of paper and the weight of shredding two baby trees with me but ... myself up for this SuperUROP, and they gave me the freedom to choose where

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  work of all the people who came before me, and how other humans were ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... ends with me and i’m not going to try to continue it”? maybe people not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I ... missing little things -- I can’t borrow pens from the person next to me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  lifelong injury-free streak, was well oddly comforting to me. When I was ... blood, my eyes closing on me. The only other memory I have is holding my ... wasn’t whole. Something had gone wrong inside of me. And I could feel it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  month, what makes me feel guilty (and thus what makes me post again) is my ... me to be an MIT blogger is because THERE ARE SO MANY AWESOME THINGS ... two things to talk about. So props to Snively for motivating me. But if

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny-Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... kind of hard for me and for a lot of other people, as I discovered during

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  helped me. The morphine had helped me. Not God. I felt crushed and angry. “Why would a being, all-powerful, ever-merciful, let me suffer?” And it was not just me. It was the homeless man repeatedly stumbling into the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  think up something wonderful. And it seemed to me that this sentiment was ... gratifying to me to turn on this radio program in my car and have this sunny ... a play at the Cutler Majestic Theater. The original plan was for me to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  Let me start with a confession. Last year, if you had told me that I ... your face. Me, an MIT student? The concept was practically unthinkable ... same conclusion: What could possibly be so special about me, that MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  enroll. Don't be shy- send me an email. Say hi. Introduce yourself. I try ... be able to say to you what Ben said to me (which totally made my day): "Laura?! The Laura? Awesome!" and not "ummmm... who?" So do me and yourself

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room ... moved out, they "un-crowded" my room and gave me a single on the Conner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... NCAA Division III Form and bring them with me to my first meeting with my ... ...they totally called me on the fact that my essays had no structure at all, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... onto fictional worlds to motivate me to soldier on. MIT surprised me by ... more tests than I care to remember. Being a student here has humbled me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a ... ’s finally hitting me that I’m not just in an entirely new country, but also in ... part of me that doesn’t feel like I’m in a new place though. That in some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself ... that has rubbed off on me. I made a friend at Next House, and spent time there until I made more friends, enough to convince me to move, enough to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  the resume --> improving the self). Occasionally, then-me punches now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... true. Other blog posts recanting the more mundane remind me that in many

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... 's actually not a trick question. So when people told me I should write about ... just an example. I'm me. You're not me. If you submitted an essay exactly

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  8 months ago, an email from MIT asking me for money read something ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... to teach me when I would call home and complain about hard tests and

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008