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  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust ... action and fun, certain things along the way make you think. It seems like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  gotten comfortable in it’s state of unconsciousness, and hauling yourself ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... ’re not even big things, just little chores here and there. Like taking my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  (Course 9 and Course 6-7) actually submit my concentration completion form ... , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  before and slid my laptop back under my bed. Hopefully my gel would be ... and several rainstorms from several feet of table and a window away. We worried about flooding (and hosage); meanwhile they withered in the cruel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find ... (Vamos…); NBA Finals (aww Boston…; next year!); Wimbledon (Rafa!!!); and ... and all the fans in pandemonium of national pride is pretty exciting – I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  . Let's take a look around 54-100. Shiny and state of the art. I did a ... 't take MY word for it. Read on. It's 12 units like most classes here and it meets 2-3:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays for lecture and some time on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  all the previously mentioned Awesome Stuff that it offered. And I loved ... slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and ... lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The ... representing events from their first two years at MIT, and drawing upon suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... be checking in on the students from our school and offering advice ... turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  your own internal state, and I keep noticing in various unrelated ... The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year I was. I said junior, and he said, “ah, yeah, that’s usually when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... whole seemed so abstract and so distant that I basically thought it would

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Signing in from sunny foggy and snowy and icy and rainy Greenbelt ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  two freebie posts; for fall and spring semester, you can write about ... first test, and he somehow refrained from smacking me (which I would ... 't all that bad, around here, and completing 65% of the material isn't all

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember ... and have interviewed 50+ applicants in the places work and life have

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I ... , appealing is subjective and ultimately depends on the values of the maker and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  fire pits, grazing water buffalo and men hauling logs. Occasionally, a group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  university, and I obtained these twenty two computers the other day; if I ... that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  ! Based on a comment I got yesterday, there are still people working... and ... entry. Given the locations of our cuts, I would say that thekeri and I are ... second day of classes and I have now had every class in my schedule at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year."]CI-H[/annotation] class. I've really enjoyed it. I never got to take Greek and Roman history

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020