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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... gotten in. Hobbies I’d never heard of, towns I’d only heard of, and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I ... [/annotation], a design class I took in the spring about translated typography

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me ... , weekly psets, recitations, or class readings that are all baselines. I can ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... -- like I had some rational thoughts earlier today [ie, in the pod lounge

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... will look like out in the real world. A real world where I can't just ... [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  , simpler dream. To just do the absolute best I can do in whatever I end up ... . I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  played it well when alone, but in class my hands shook and I pressed my ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... I hid behind my music stand. Three years later, I was in high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your ... certainly worked hard back then, but I was never forced to engage in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  see them as frequently as I can. Whenever I am in their respective ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... therapeutic and it was nice to check in with myself, so I encourage you to ask

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . I can’t spend more than fifteen minutes without opening Discord or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... admitted or not, can never fully capture our deepest belief in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by ... ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020