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• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  realized that the big school i got into would actually be better for me, but ... friends drank at bars decided that black is my best color played outside in the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... surprise when I told them about my decision. Their main point: why would I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the yarn intertwines, my heart can mend too. I never realized I would ... . Who would've known that ten years later, I would still be knitting? I ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... generally disdain the reporting about MIT in the Boston Globe, I did like the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  what kind of commitment I would be able to make. That was in the spring ... 're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel ... awesome. Ten out of ten would sit in it again. And since Hayden is so, Empty

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... of this squeeze I had left in front of me: Needless to say, caving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the ... in 2:24pm: i text the person who emailed 2:57pm: the person roller

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 ... do this again?' But I digress. The indomitable Adam won third place in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don ... idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... would make sense in a professional setting like an HR department. But

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... stuck in a lab for most of the day. I mean, I'm sure she was voluntarily ... tunnels, or the fact that my host and I found an elevator in the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high ... Things I Love About MIT (or at least it would be, if such a list actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they ... goal, isn't it? The Outreach Initiative with which I am most familiar is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would ... only woman in the room and I would love there to be more gender diversity ... year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  [/annotation]? Will the class be fun and engaging? What value would I get from taking this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... taking. In order, they are: Will I thrive in this class if I took it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  in person from an applicant when I was working as an EC in the San ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him ... : "First, I recognize there is a major difference between people I would want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... to drag my nasty cold-ridden body (I knew FYRE would get me sick ... Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  to see if I would like who I become if I stop putting in the effort to ... concept that also comes up in [annotation note="I'd like to thank Ana ... [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... 've gone too far. Whoever wrote MIT's graphic identity rules would writhe in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022