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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  hours of 10pm and 2am Saturday night. I was about to put on athletic ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  depths for hours, but it refuses to go away. Kim D. ‘18 The MIT Media Lab ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  get from night to night, you shrug and say one to ten hours, muttering ... as taking more than 168 hours a week. When you try to add it to your ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a few days. I have spent many stressful, agonizing hours discovering that ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  hour, which is 50 body lengths per second, roughly equivalent to a human ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  important to train yourself to believe people as a first instinct rather than ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... . My sleep schedule, I feel, is about 2 hours later than normal working ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  magpatila ng ulan—to wait for the rain to pass. You wait an hour, and the rain ... season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to October. Overnight, the winds would abruptly switch from amihan to habagat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  especially important to me to understand the experiences of the immigrant ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  problems for hours, then told them to someone, then watched them solve it in ... One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  . The full moon will bleed crimson-red for three hours before returning to ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  try to rejoin. I repeat this process four times within a two-hour period ... little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  some friends. We stood in line for hours next to a sixteen year old who ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008