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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to ... . He's reinforced with a file folder and covered in packaging tape to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to ... self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends ... , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a ... drinking soda without the fizz. Yeah, I've talked to people. I have a pod, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  available, however, the edge of the Long Wharf is a perfect place to sit and ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last ... I don’t even know what to ask. I know I need to give them a heads up ... ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only ... look forward to reading about your passions, too. Finally, with a month

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school ... school in the MIT area to observe and assist with a STEM class for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... heads off to bed, giving you a sympathetic "good night", until it's 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or ... the writing ends because I used the next page and a half to draw the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  experience and exposes you to a wide range of types of people and cultures (and ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... about a relevant IAP course: The time our 6.006 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013