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  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... clash of my exam and i couln't give it. in december i have my exam again for SAT. so i couldn't complete my test on time that had set up by the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  night before. My clothes were laid out for me, my lunch would be packed, my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  (Google Maps, you're on my enemies list), I had a spectacular time getting ... The Jay with Alaina. Thanks guys! So I thought maybe I could display my ... in playing, which was my senior year in high school when the entire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of too much consequence in my graduate school application, since I already ... plants! I hate you! EDIT: I sent my personal statement to the professor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  in my hands, seeing beautiful lines flow from my pencil, is so insanely addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior ... origami, and constantly sketching in all my classes. Still, when it came

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  especially the first 4 or so) as wishing my Great Hunger would disappear, since ... from blogger alumni. So I decided to use one of my tactics against writer’s block: pilfering through my “graveyard”, discarded posts or snippets that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  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 / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  I am writing, because the fear in my fingers will not allow me to draw ... chaos when I graduate. Despite hanging out with my alumni friends a lot, I ... the chrysalis, and I don’t know if my wings will be ready. It’s the end

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• 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