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  someday fate of friends

  

  ’d do if I dropped out of school now—the answer is to be with my friends ... since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol ... ’re not up lol (okay if not, just thought to offer) I'll probably be awake ... bed I had a weird series of naps What are you up for? Ah I see Not for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second ... and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed ... The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the ... and take my first steps into the world of “we don't know why this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  think all or most of us signed up anyway. We like helping.) Actually ... lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college decision. I would really encourage all of you to ask lots of questions this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... . Normally I wouldn't actually do this because I'd be too busy or just not

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  . Full disclosure, I didn’t get admitted into any of the schools I applied ... about as I was exactly two years ago? Some of you probably are. Some of ... of writing excessive amounts of fanfiction, so I was pretty excited to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... more closely with students as a college counselor in a high school ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away He was full of great one-liners and aphorisms, but one that stuck out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  pride that we have (p-sets took most of it away). But rest assured that ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad ... other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on ... about the IAP Charm School (" Join special guests David Rogers and Jed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  ;"<. It was freshman year of high school. I was obsessed with AMC 10 - I ... freshman year of high school, this Leap Day is my freshman year of college ... . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of ... rest of the pool. So basically, all you admissions poohbahs, I'm giving you until 2029 (2006 plus 5 years -- when I'm done with grad school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long ... 'll start reviewing applications sometime near the first weekend of November

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  arts colleges. Two of them were safety state schools. I would have gone ... , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  a daily basis about school assignments, and I spent a good portion of ... in my life would hold this against me. I missed a month of school ... March 13th, school had been called off for the next couple of weeks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness. After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007