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• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I remembered: "Moon milk!" You see, it was my first time caving (what? What did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... around with computers, and circuits, and microchips (oh my!). Yeah, I ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if ... siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don ... else I love more than lying there digging my nails into my palm trying

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how ... enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023