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Blog / How to Human
Be Social awkward and anxious
girlfriends and just walk into that party and own it because I would be in my ... existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly -
Blog / Academics & Research
major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?
compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... much in that position. But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just ... … Before starting sophomore year, I knew very well that MechE probably would -
Blog / MIT Life
people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall
; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all to say that at some point in last night's studying, around 3 AM, I went ... ; and in that moment I thought to myself that if my life were a movie that -
Blog / Academics & Research
I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision
what I wanted to do. I felt like it would allow me to doing something in ... anything I would want to do in the public sector would be related to public ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my -
Blog / MIT Life
Talking to Strangers
creepy. He asked if I would take a picture of him in a costume he’d just ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions
, I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television, sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit ... skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Choose my Halloween Costume!
have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... 'd SO be Veronica Mars if I thought anyone would get it). Ready....go! -
Blog / MIT Life
Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?
answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would ... would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... ELEFANTES! Love you, Bryan Now back in the 90s, I used to have to rely on -
Blog / How to Human
re-orienting REX et al.
represent them. I would come back every day and hang around in the lounge ... dear past me, I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days ... circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and -
Blog / Events
BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…
the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... some magic, and eventually we had the cookies in the oven. I rushed over -
Blog / Challenges
then and now a reflection on the very bad
why she would need to come to school in these last couple of weeks." I ... intentions. I never thought a girl like me would end up at MIT, let alone in ... I would have missed out on if I didn't chicken out that weekend in -
Blog / About Decisions
Finding Your Match and why it matters
and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... I was stronger in the humanities and social sciences than in STEM, so -
Blog / Academics & Research
Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…
sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s -
Blog / IAP
In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY
Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ... not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... semester in CMS.300 Intro to Videogame Theory. In addition to this, I am -
Blog / Admissions
Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…
when I can. In the meantime, admissions questions are always welcome here ... . For many students, it doesn't really set in that they're an MIT student ... almost here! Because I care about you, here are some tips for choosing an -
Blog / Academics & Research
Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet
. Or maybe drown. But it would be exciting! In fact, while I wasn ... moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing ... the Library, and pelt out tunes that would make Beethoven roll in his -
Blog / Challenges
first week class reflections i am home
in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did ... honestly have given up hope. i have never felt so defeated in my life and i -
Blog / Academics & Research
keeping interest a list of things i think are cool
don't think I would take anything away from it. In fact, I think my cool ... would never be a computer science major. I had taken AP Computer Science A in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…
chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie ... hours, in pool water, in salt water, in fresh water, in the ocean, where I ... ) anywhere in the Boston/ Cambridge area? Hopefully (crosses fingers)I'll get