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  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... Vegas! (my hometown)']a place that never sleeps.[/annotation] Even in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... disappear within a day and made my way to class. Unfortunately, the pain did

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift, searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not ... without knowing it since my first tour of MIT. There are displays of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the ... could be doing something better than draining my cellular data and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  name is FINAL FANTASY 7. I LOVE this game. It has been my guiding beacon ... have stayed with me through rougher periods in my life. I can't really qualify what exactly about it has stuck with me for ~40% of my life - the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  meticulously organised (both my dorm room and my room back home would probably ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... most drastic decision I’ve made, ever. Saying goodbye to my cat and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... much of my life has been overhauled this past year that it feels like I ... very impatient second-semester senior who had just finished all my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a ... last fall semester asleep. I tracked my sleep patterns from the first day ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... lights, and academic pursuits. In my parents' home, I have my sister, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and ... house. Yay Sarah! After stuffing my face, I burned off some small ... little disorganized about fulfilling my HASS requirement: I've been taking

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  all there is? Is this all I will be? I'm afraid that this is my peak ... . As my time ticks away, regret eats away at everything I do. Should I ... ? How much of a role does money really play in my life? I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  ’s one of my favorite platformers. But there are spoilers. So. If that ... My Head [annotation note="Right now I plan to keep finding music to go with my posts until I deem it cringe"] Song:[/annotation] Voices in my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my family. Every year, my mom and dad would invite all the Chinese faculty and ... photato,' based on my dad's phonetic spelling one year, which my sister and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  ="Yes, weekly. My family had an annual pass since we lived close to Anaheim and it was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my ... ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  1. Go home My last final ended at 12pm on a particularly ominous Wednesday. I say ominous because I had just slogged my way through three other ... cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  ...great. When I found out my final exam score, my brain immediately switched into "problem? there's a problem? WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?" mode. My neurons fired ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  I declared my major. I declared my major. I declared my major. *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the ... declaring your major at the end of the year. My impression is that joining a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  very flexible with your teacher recommendations. The MyMIT Tracking is up ... to worry at this time about documents that are not showing on MyMIT; we ... early to MIT without attaching a research abstract. However, my research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009