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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... 've always felt that I lack in comparison to other MIT students: I just don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks ... summer, but decided that ultimately I hadn't devoted enough time and would

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  Period. As holidays go, I'd say Spring Break falls somewhere in the high ... 've mostly been enjoying myself. I am, by the by, back home in South Bend. I ... . Last year, if you'd told me I would be writing these words, I probably

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  teaching, in graphics design, and it would address what I think is a huge ... how privileged I am. It would make me feel guilty, in a sense, to be ... . The Fall Career Fair happened in September, and I didn’t really actively

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been ... rejoice when I got class average. My first semester average would have been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  ? MIT students/alums, what advice would you have for incoming freshmen in ... awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... would be very sad if I burned her merchandise. I also didn’t want to cause ... , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  would have been unproductive. In hindsight though, maybe I could have ... able to several personal projects in the time I would be taking a class ... in the two weeks after classes ended. I got distracted as little as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  and actually go explore the city I live in. One of my first ~outings ... what could be. Just like with Dali and surrealism in general, I feel like ... ="104068" /] Monet is my favorite painter of all time (I would decorate my entire house

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the ... being in pain myself. Undoubtedly a nice change, I must say. Having just ... still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  asked me to describe my time in India, I would repeat a three-word phrase ... took excursions outside the city. I would be in a group with my friends ... saw a billboard, I would note the complexion of the models used in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  . First, I had forgotten that this REX would be the first in-person REX in ... decided, would have to be easier. I had a twelve-week internship secured for ... committee; I would only be a member of the committee, providing whatever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog ... powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and deliver. if love was the kind of thing i could wrap up in words and send

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My ... , I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  I get a chance (maybe when I next answer questions in a day or two?) I ... Last night, I attended the ceremonial unveiling of the design of the ... process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005