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• Blog / Classes

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

  

  on, as I took in the different symptoms for proposed diseases, all of ... fogged in the cold. I thought of my bookshelf at home, with this five ... I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  'all in a box. They have you in a box. You can save the world, but you are ... in Silicon Valley. MIT, you can save the world. Kids in college, you can save the world.  I'll put my life on this interview right now. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was ... I didn't want a smoothie after all, then went off in search of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  , or hold a big meeting in every city. And not every student interested ... officers themselves, were different and special in their own way. However, I ... Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions ... 't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but I think they're a fun way to take your mind off of something. Here are

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  down some stretches of road are so flat, I swear you can see your own ... can stand on the smallest of ledges, which understandably helps a lot in ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  Mitra and I talk about to the tune of 5.8 e-mails on an average day? Well, looking through my archives, I can see that we were in fact having 5 ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  third of the way through, but it's the first book in a while that I ... of pages."]super cool characters that I've fallen in love with ... everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  school ended and spent the rest of my schooling in the Twin Cities area ... carbon copy of the childhood home that existed in my mind. And I was ... .   . . .   I was so tired of moving. I still am. In the past

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  ”) that I was won over almost immediately, in spite of the grey spring ... into MIT, just like I didn’t take any of the classes I took in high school or participate in any of the extracurriculars I participated in to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... lot of money. I did some calculations in my head. The benefit I'd get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... restaurant in Jamaica Plains, a suburb of Boston. I haven't been there since ... think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston ... you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... one. There's one biggy, the litmus test of tourism in Boston, and that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  backpack!" "Nope, I'm sorry, you can't get in." Wonderful. Security 2 ... only way I could think of exploiting this situation was to go buy a ... plastic for $$$ and nobody took debit. I set out in search of an ATM as the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I ... Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out of meat?  Toss a watermelon back and forth in some sort of deranged

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  . During my CPW in April 2003 (wow), I took some photos of all the madness ... . And I owe a final "bravo" to all 07s in other cities doing similarly amazing things -- can I crash with you when I visit? P.S. In case you're as

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a ... the perks of skating in the middle of the day. The night before I ... I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was ... went on a meditation retreat. There are certainly ways I can say it in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  . but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of ... at mit. in that same vein, there is this sense of awe at "wow, i cannot ... life in this way. and now i'm friends with his partners, and friends of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025