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  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The ... really made? How do products go from idea to mass production? How are ... get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl ... ’t take a lot of pictures.   “I am not pretty. I’ve got a big heart

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they ... listening to if you have the time. This post is not meant to have answers — if ... things; to begin his two most recent albums, he says “if you do not have 52

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  valid talking points when you’re too busy thinking about how not to cry at ... as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself ... have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  discussing where and how we found some of these images. We’re going to try not ... other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... not be able to find a room based on its room number. CJ: Truly an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  well!!). How to navigate adulthood. (I know it's not three, but figured ... myself to individual, alone-time self-care activities, or how those never ... were you not able to accomplish? I wanted to focus a lot more on my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  people imagine and how it is visual for some people and not for others. At ... with because they don’t know how to accurately translate their feelings ... This weekend, some people from MIT SAAS went to Yale for the South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided yet whether or not I'm going to repack or whether I'm just going to take ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... ://www.uni.edu/~gotera/gradapp/stmtpurpose.htm) How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose Vince Gotera English Language ... writing and also about how to present yourself will lead you astray. For

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  stayed home with my grandmother. Suffice to say, they did NOT bring me back ... would say something like “I’d also come to learn that the world was white ... believed that one of the most important things that you could do was travel—to

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor ... to the 3rd floor lounge tripled due to the stepping-over of crowds of ... , empty plates, and scattered scraps of paper marked with indecipherable

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  ="113804" /] 14.01: a.k.a Intro to Microeconomics! I did not take any [annotation ... dropping so it’s time to grind out those too… I’m not trying to claim that ... actually started this Tuesday and showed up to an empty sailing pavilion

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  wanted people to discover how cool square dancing is. i wanted to give ... funding to throw parties at not-frats every week. i cared that east campus ... more. it never works as well as i want it to. it's not like homework

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... class that's showed me how to be more comfortable with my writing and take ... . It is the slice to your heel that causes your collapse. Oh, how your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... than it is because I'm not used to needing to try to sleep. Regardless, I ... into the way-too-big trailer, leaving nothing behind but my empty room

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  to do (academically or not) and using the opportunities here to grow ... people I met during CPW I have not seen or talked to since, which is sad ... that I regularly need around 8 hours to feel functional and not take

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  discovered on Saturday when showing the project to my friend). Not to worry, my ... , and they also need weekends, if not only to catch up on sleep. No matter how hectic my schedule is I always make time to hang out with my friends

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  tried to [annotation note="not Go Fish, but Canadian Fish, the superior ... ? What was there to talk about with them? It’s not as if I wanted to talk ... they are to you isn’t new, not at all. That night, I sleep in my host

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  enough for me to not look too closely most of the times. or feel like the ... moments where i ask how can it be home when it so obviously, clearly, is not ... fleeting concept now.’ i talked about how selfish i had to be to change and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. For those of you whom were not admitted, know ... This year well over 18,000 students applied for admission to MIT in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012