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

  

  that infinite corridor, I was nine years old. My parents had always ... the best of it, and throughout my childhood they took my older sibling ... . One of my oldest memories is asking my parents to bring me back the real

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

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  espresso, by Sidney Amos Paige: Nearly three years ago, I was writing my ... financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  guess it's just that i've been busy with classes, and my urop, and there ... from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  * Activities Periods Allan’s IAP I arrived with my parents to Berkeley, California on January 4th. For the first couple days we went exploring! For my ... entailed sleeping while my parents drove to the malls, and sleeping on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith ... . To label it "the synthesis of life" or even "the synthesis of my future ... Class That Shall Not Be Named"), and somewhat restructuring my coursework

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to ... read these blogs know what an integral is, but my mom, who also reads ... would be like my time at MIT prepared me for the wrong thing and then when

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  , "I am still in the process of getting my supplementary materials ... when reviewing my app? When scores are sent from the college board to MIT ... the same subject test twice to improve my score?" moonghostv wrote, "How

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• 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