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  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my eyes, and I couldn’t think. My heart was pounding, and I felt slightly

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big ... kitchen facilities that were available in New House to come up with my own ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking ... undergraduate, and the other part came from me forgetting my password, but fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some ... to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China ... feels right that next semester is my last. It's a funny thing, one minute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... my birthday. Then sophomore year I had 2 finals on my birthday. Junior year I turned 21 the day before my 8.05 final, studied til about 4am and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty ... . My breakfast. My best friend telling me I'm crazy because I'm taking a photo of my food. 8:55 AM - Arrive in lab, unload my stuff at desk. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from ... sitting on my couch or Ben's couch with my laptop on my lap isn't exactly ... . In my defense, I'll say that I'm a lot less of a drama queen than I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  my beloved homeland--Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And how am I getting ... there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to ... make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill ... over and tells me that I need my [annotation note="Boston also has the ... .[/annotation] I drop everything and open up Craigslist.  My dad got our family cat

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

    I. With the fall semester complete, I could finally focus all my ... . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the lead up to the 2018 US Champs crippled my preparation, mentally and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  (a/n: My birthday was a few weeks ago! So this blog is just slightly ... twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... maladaptive coping mechanisms, but my inability to cry in front of other people

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... my life time. These moments in my life are not extreme in the sense that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... year was already familiar with my shenanigans, just sighed and said ... about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A ... Bridge finalist. My friend, was accepted. I was so happy for him, but I was also ... solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... time, the experience really disrupted my self-confidence. My overwhelming ... felt like I was at an academic disadvantage due to my background, the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  stuck on a meal plan anyway. i just would stay home! i like my parents, i ... role-reversal, my parents were staunchly against my staying home: they ... people my own age (i believe "age appropriate activities" were the words

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Soundtrack   This IAP, I... My first, second, and third IAPs brought me ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... , My first priority was to focus on eating well and to cook most, if not

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  — with no final exams. To be fair, instead, all my classes had assignments and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my group's 6.S08 final project   Classwork for all my courses: 6.S08

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone, especially you, my readers ... the same thing I am and it's both humbled me and empowered me. My post ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015