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  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  fortunate to be able to do everything I want to do. tick Would someone please acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like ... get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking ... things down when i've had enough. this tuesday, every person in my house ... 'm not running from activity to class to activity anymore—i'm just in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  the many lol"]many things i would change,[/annotation]i think i generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to ... , because before I got to MIT, I never would have been able to make it all the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  both counts. In my case, I tell the students to dress however they would ... I submit two essays in a doc. file? If I did so, would AOs be kind ... " would be good advice. Jacqueline wrote, "I've been in the Albertan school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  the speech, and thought how perfect it would be if I threw in a “Bon ... history. I grabbed an excerpt from her autobiography, “My Life in France ... international readers) February day in Boston. I got on my bike and just explored

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  's always nice to see the median voter theorem in action. What courses would ... would take CMS.410 Popular Culture in the Age of Media Convergence ... Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  most days - occasionally two meals and/or no dessert - but when I'm in ... ) - Reread lots of books that I haven't read in a long time - Attended my dad ... team once I get back in town and IAP starts - Visit my old high school

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to ... popular tropes in horror films, early horror genre movies would often explain more than the modern movie-goer would feel necessary. In addition

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of ... to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... applying 500 times would probably give a good result, but I don't feel like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  slipped through the narrative cracks. - In mid-February, I boarded a bus ... my trumpet with the orchestra. Ten years later, I prayed that I would ... ' various affairs. In principle, I don't have anything against putting two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  . (Where would mankind be without microwaves?) I hope I didn't get grease on ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in ... Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  deserved to walk those hallowed halls of MIT. I would NOT have made it ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure ... I showed up, she took me under her wing in a heartbeat. She taught me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  loud with wailing. But in that moment I think it would have been too ... anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... a depressed character, Kate Gompert, in the book, the more I realized

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring ... orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  's realizing what's important and what has to be done in order to succeed. I mean ... with his African ancestry in his summer visits to Minnesota. "I have ... , and if I don't, I will be disappointed in myself the most. Far from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... that would have wifi. I walked there, checked online with a few other

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... freshman year. (resume anecdotes) While I tell myself I would come to MIT ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14.21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005