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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I watched Rocketman with two of my roommates. Out of seven people living in ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... ’re stuck here. Your friends can’t tell if you’re laughing or crying. You ... . IHTFP. excalculus ‘15: You ask your bio major friend for some help

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  in hats and my cousins and my brother and my sisters and my best friend ... any of the classes I taught but who wanted to become my friend anyway ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  the Harry Potter films to confuse your friends and relatives! If they ... it’s peaceful. I whiled away many pre-decision hours by taking my dog ... a breath of perspective. Even if I had been rejected, my dog would

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  , two whole days before the official premier. A group of my friends even ... -body diagrams. I had caught myself gushing sob stories to my friends about how ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  )), from my friend Paula J. ‘14’s apartment in Alewife. I got to work with ... gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... like an orange.) My goals this REX are special and new: I’ve already

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  best friends walk down Killian Court and out of my day-to-day life. All ... you can catch my Random Hall friends (below), the graduated bloggers, or ... Mountain National Forest. Between family, my boyfriend, my friends, and some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  "] stay strong my friends[/caption] ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love being able to channel all of my aggression and anger out of my body and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  pretty enough to make me wish I could swim. Well, one of my friends Daniel ... and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don ... , forever gaping at you. It only took a week—my first week as a freshman

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in ... , from the bottom of my heart: good luck! Black Hole kitchen         

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  the ticket they would say the color. I along with my friend Karen had ... one of my friends Charlotte M. 20’ was presenting at!!! Good thing there ... presenting the Hacker's map!! And snapchats of me from my beautiful friends who

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella ... story. Many times, my friends, family (and even I myself) ask why I do ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity ... Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is...mushiness. Mushiness comes in sentiment form. People like that-friend-you-haven't-spoken

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  enough time with my friends, because I'll only ever have a limited time ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  many of my friends were going, and to which I had already submitted a ... visiting friends and doing preliminary research for my undergraduate thesis ... knew from my friends and my research that it was going to be. This was an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... said that why yes, that would be great. So my friend asked the natural ... indeterminacy, passed by before my friend tentatively asked "hey - are you okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  , I visited pika with my friend Caroline M '18 and Michelle (the blogger ... of my friends who now live there or have lived there. Now it is home. I ... In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... lounge while I write this 20* *Please. I could totally take him. My band teacher, Mr. L, assigned me my first solo in sixth grade. Just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his ... to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I ... The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019