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• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... Chicago, you see, and I was still wearing my uniform--polo shirt and plaid ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  sets and no commitments other than my UROP - which gives me quite a bit of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that ... crazy, fun, and/or ridiculous things I've been up to this past week. To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for "talented and gifted children." Other than being REAL GOOD at reading, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... afraid of upsetting the chinese government, and so on   ii. of ... ongoing housing and homelessness crises. this is an expansive and very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Organizing Fellow and, later on, Data Analyst for my home state of Nevada. I ... days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater ... . But, as I approached spring break, assignments finally wound down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  now, supposedly halfway between this state of knowing and not knowing. I ... forcing me to complete my thoughts, to fully flesh out and consider every ... middle of junior fall where I admitted that I, too, was terrified. And

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... headdresses, and wielding construction paper bows and arrows, chasing around the ... into the hearts of state schools around the country. What really

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... heavy and shipping would cost me my soul. Other than that, it's a good way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  . The country is in a state of terrible disaster and trauma and we need a ... city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... organized and arranged all these things into a hopefully aesthetic square-ish shape, and will now describe all of them as we reminisce. 1

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  dessicated hours between 12 and 5 pm. Recall that the most cherished hallmark ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... Recess for the worship of spherical projectiles and various incarnations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  includes a little bit of everything, and because it's such a flexible major ... , for instance, took a lot of cellular and molecular neurobiology classes. I've taken, among other things, a functional and evolutionary

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately ... would yell out a number, and MIT people would say to which course it ... with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison and Bach cantatas. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember the 1991 pinatubo eruption, and they would tell us stories. no one lived near

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  different times in my life and especially throughout my MIT journey. And, to ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a ... Texas, where the concept of a fraternity (especially at a state school

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  , but like, a deep post. something that's a little more reflective and ... guess it's just that i've been busy with classes, and my urop, and there's a lot going on, you know? and also, overall, i'm a lot happier these

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  one test My fate and class grade is sealed With one test I'm the good ... , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me ... , what’s your name?” We talked for a while. He said he’s from Texas and he’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college. So at CPW, I visited the crew and TKD info booths, and during ... .E. Taekwondo and loved it. Master Chuang (head Instructor of Sport TKD) brought

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... . That includes both robots and mental health. There’s been a lot of debate ... page about Imposter Syndrome, I think everyone responded with relief and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015