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• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  wanted an A in that class. I would have liked recognition of all the work I ... the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... to have an after-work event at which parents would construct gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  . In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three ... in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been ... look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... this post a lot trying to break it down. In the end, I decided it came

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... not sure that I would want everything to occur the exact same way that ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... happen. by the time i’m back in my room, i have twenty unread emails, all ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  experience has been positive. i guess i lucked out, in a sense, when i have a somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a ... , i don’t notice any pattern in when the thoughts come. when i wake up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  in the moment. And even though I thought I new my friends well, there ... biking and cave hiking, I found myself sitting in a Gondola on my way back ... forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  ’t know if i want to change or in what directions i would. what i do know is ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of communities that i respect, like the group houses i lived in or the relevant

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  mentally envision how I would paint everything currently in my line of sight ... ’t splattered with color. My mom would to unfailingly chide me when I’d graffiti ... yesterday afternoon, as I thumbed a hole in the last of my familiar, paint

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  it was in high school or college. I get them several times a year. Over ... injured, but sometimes, they would occur even without an injury. I decided ... For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get ... in his class. Needless to say things got different when I got to MIT ... think it really struck me that physics was hard when I got this problem in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software ... server). In my spare time, I work front desk at Random Hall and am a Summer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... democratic leader? Am I nothing more than a hypocrite who would be in the ... finished, so I decided with the extra time that I would go visit my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming ... where I’m from, all I’m allowed to say is “I used to live in Simmons ... and writing in the middle of it all, that I realize how much I love

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... as a former Burton Conner resident, i had a two options in dealing ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  realities of college. I will contemplate the practice in the end, and a color ... my hall, and I expect to be detained by people. In the evenings, they ... irresistible, and normally I give in to temptation. After a day of important

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  . Learning this, I should've known that showing up in my MIT MechE merch would ... Layla, for sending it to me and knowing i would love it ... I harp on in English about topics they’ve only ever found the words

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I ... . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005