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  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited expletives (that I can't post on the blogs) with my dad. I earnestly hope that ... you'll see that my 2013 Pi Day was equally exciting, though in a totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  My earliest memory of making a presentation consists of saying ... and present a new kind of medicine. I have no recollection what my ... seconds gripping the bottle over my face and staring down at my shoes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  Downs It started on my personal blog with this, admittedly, super tooly entry. It's amazing to compare how I act and write now with some of my earlier entries, both in my personal blog and MIT blog. MIT has certainly

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  my LAST Orientation Activities Midway (I had manned the Model UN booth ... been emerging a lot - this is my LAST fall first day of classes - this is my LAST fall first day of lecture - this is my LAST time pretending to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... bottle rocket post-launch   The assignment was part of my Friday GEL ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/preparing_for_the_real_world) With only 60 minutes to build the rocket from scratch, my team of four

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , and I just finished my second year at MIT. Until recently, I was the ... Haus is my home. It is the late nights and early mornings spent painting my room, the smell of rush burgers and cigarettes that I never smoked

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong ... residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours ... .[annotation note="fortunately my partner was wonderful, and the 30-hour weeks were

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  the title and subtitle come from my favorite scene of bojack horseman some of my friends prefer the alternate saying “it never gets easier, you ... 2020 i refused to clean my mouth. i never brushed my teeth or flossed or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... and oral communication provided.  This is my [annotation note ... four debate topics this semester as we are required to. My topics are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  . Then I took another breath in, tried to clear my mind, focused on executing the shot as cleanly as possible. My finger pushes on the trigger. It ... while I hold my focus on the front sight. I waited a few heartbeats

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse ... University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  for a week before exam 3, we constantly argued about this. Danny: My ... exam, and doing so well that I’d be confident enough with my standing in ... guided by a test grade. Allan: And my fear is exactly what happened! We

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  days of my MIT career, to see the entire community come together so ... the MIT community. So, as soon as the website went live, I submitted my application, including a sound recording of me giving an excerpt from my talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... something other than the IV sticking into my arm. I noticed a particularly ... . He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  this before, but my summer is very routine and kind of boring. I have ... on my iPod Touch, things I should remember to mention on my blog. Each ... something that happened at high school graduation. A tradition existed at my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal ... wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... [/annotation] but that’s a story for another time. The thing I remember most from my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  nearly two years ago, I co-wrote this blog discussing my experiences ... did my freshman year. my decision to commit to Kinematix full ... served as Treasurer in my sophomore year and didn't enjoy it since, well

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021