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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  kind of clicked in when I saw John Kerry. He's an important guy, and he ... for Obama to see me, so in the words of James '11, I went in "guns ... MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  within the media industry, an atypical choice for an MIT student, my ... had is unusual in that it’s an almost cartoonish example of sexism ... to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  with an extra hour in a day. The three first-years in the group, myself ... These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were ... build. You will leave for the airport and feel an ache so large that you ... but perfectly viable.’ But in reality and for the existentialist… in

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i ... ’s working. i am one of the co-directors for hssp, which is an educational ... and its tendrils for instilling this belief, i played a part in it too

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... soreness. There's not really a single good word for it in English, I think ... cakes for your friends' birthdays, playing tractor at three in the morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  the fall? We talked for half an hour. And then he left for the airport. I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed ... part of the reason was that I expected to stay in my room for longer. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  in. They look around for empty seats and drop their things on a blue or ... coming to an end, and then I’m out the door, in the sun, walking across ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a ... this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  ) there are so many flaws in this haiku I am trying to purify my blood for ... things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... engineers out there) would be to share my send off to Dr. Abe. He was an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure: “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024