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  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  Vulnerability," a TED talk I had bookmarked on my computer for all of high school ... what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B. '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  -AP-stats class"]two years of high school statistics.[/annotation] I did learn about ... high school like a normal kid, nor how burnt out I felt by the start of ... semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too ... of post for restaurants before we all got kicked out of Cambridge, but ... during the school year because I have no time. As a result, I have a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  are going through content at a completely unheard-of pace. All of my ... and analyze a bunch of different assays to prove different biological phenomena, instead of just regurgitating facts that have already been proven

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  went to a Canadian school in Jamaica for a couple of years. Everyone ... , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  , embrace it, and then let it go. This is your last semester of high school ... and let them roll through my mind. All of my dreams have come true. Have ... that will appear or disappear because of what MIT tells you on Thursday

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... -packed couple of days as always. It seems crazy that we will soon be out of

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... of time learning basic lab techniques like how to slice brain tissue ... each other within a certain area of the bird’s brain, and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  your floor's chances of winning by entering in all five! Happy Cooking ... that they'd had enough of seeing so many other floors' entries in the ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  black kid in every one of my classes during elementary school. It was ... is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... , entertainment and media as an industry, and the power of a holiday special. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  school year when the thought of doing well in class was also at the ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... small group discussions about online privacy and a range of other topics

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... ), I've prepared the following list of guidelines: Your username must ... nicknames of a sort for people, so consider whether you'd be comfortable being

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  for the 2007-2008 school year. Here are some details: MIT has set ... needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding ... to all of our admitted students, without regard to their economic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  his grad school days at MIT. Random fact: Andrew Fire began his PhD in ... theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006