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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  (bad bad bad - don't do this at home, kids). Then my friend Ashley ... Saturday, 07/07/07, was my birthday! I usually don't plan anything big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow ... I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it ... understand when I say “Hi I’m [Debbie], my major is [undecided, but

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  . The same post-8th-period drive that my friends and I would take, crammed ... where I almost took a sharpie, wrote the responses on my flashy CPW ... , my first response is to say Missouri with a somewhat sheepish

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby told me that they appreciated hearing my laughter. I was surprised by how ... community, for members of the MIT community. This was my first year watching

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  almost broke up. It was very dramatic. I went over to visit my friend, who ... student, during my own difficult time, and I could immediately understand her story, even as the details were very different from my own. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of my friends had begun looking for apartments and packing their boxes ... decided to read it and see if my personal predictions and goals for my ... look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  step of creation all this reminds me of a miyazaki quote my friend ... lately i’ve been thinking about my relationship with art ... symphonies. my attention span has gotten worse over the years, to the point

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  cities. Against my protests to get to 800, we stopped at 25% as we had ... came back to my room, I ran into Alan and they reminded me of the correct ... their friends and so we had the geography knowledge of 4W-adjacent people

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled ... my friend Davie '12 (who was also at the concert) put it, he had three ... my program, I learned very quickly that Dudamel is not a music genre

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  static which sits inside my head, just behind my eyes. This noise makes it ... every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical ... me. It is, of course, that same burnout which I felt just as I began my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  worse, after crying my eyes out to a trusted friend, I lied to everyone ... ’ve tried my best, through one of my favorite mediums, short stories: I ... the answer somehow appear in my head after the sight of these black

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  to my friend who’d read the book, but clearly I was just jealous ... cacti with arms, pronounced ‘sah-WAH-row.’ Thanks for coming to my desert ... caught in this "not unpleasant in-between" in my last blog. No longer in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  Phase I: Recognition I sit down on my bed. My heart is racing. I am anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels ...   I have a conversation with my Anxiety. This year I learned that it

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  advantage of office hours more, as many of my friends have. Last semester, a ... RESOURCES (Note that this is a partial list of resources based on my ... , visit studentlife.mit.edu, and talk to your friendly neighborhood

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  harder than others and omg my friend says this class is impossible and don ... /5majbr.5n.html. Anyways, I'm doing this because my freshman friend Larisa ... . Really. Which brings me to my main point: You hear it a lot. Do what you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  year, I never practiced all that much. Maybe a class would catalyze my ... because my logic approaching inversions had been based off of trapeze, where ... yourself up far easier. I thought the issue at hand was my grip strength

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  these judgments.  My best friend from high school dreamed of MIT, but ... sandy mountain ledge, a lesbian with hot dogs for fingers.  My younger ... come along, so I directed all my worry at her, peppering her with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  essentially 16 of my best friends. Moreover, recruitment happened. Formal ... embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  final push 4:55am: Finish my 18.03 pset. 5:00am: Go visit my friend, Aaron ... my seat – and delivered a full serenade. Some knelt down, some held ... delight of everyone else. Before I deliver some love messages of my own, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  . Diverse Talents Last Saturday I went with my friends to Sigma Kappa's Late ... reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... decided to tell you my ED story. Last year, around this same time, I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007