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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well ... pain if they saw Tim the Beaver dressed up like a magical Japanese

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  . Tearing up a little as my parents dropped me off, napping the flight away ... 't it be so funny if I got Caragay to pick me up at the border and drive ... what if you picked me up at the border like at niagara falls i could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... and cloaked bigotry at every turn, and waking up every morning to hear ... ): “...tell your friends to pull up.” This is not just a black peoples’ issue

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  night before by cleaning up my resume, albeit not very well. The next ... chemical engineering company that had replied to me that wanted a follow up ... understandable. It was also around this time that I just started to give up in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up ... schools we dreamed of, and tried to sign up for extra courses only to drop

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  ) But it wasn’t all bad. We dug up so many memories, pictures, and ... you. But mostly, you were confusing July. Senior year is coming up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has ... get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... immediately thank the gods for finals week. My GRT, bless his soul, cooked up an

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  move: forward. And so you pick yourself up. And you take it one thing at ... head up high. Because you've come a long way. And you deserve to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  up with M I T. Seems like no one can truly escape the firehose, no ... breaks, where I can catch up on my life, focus on myself, take a moment to ... Saturday afternoon. I ended up doing better than I expected, and ended up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  , Val, Kate’s sister, called me again, and I picked up. What followed was ... the call, and then ending up crouched down on the side of the road for ... pessimist and generally cope by dreaming up the worst possible scenarios, in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  mom, cleaning around the house, meeting up with high school friends ... , exercising is honestly not nearly as high up as it probably should be (read: is ... it! It ended up being super comfortable and convenient, and even fit a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  year. But while Allan has consistently filled up every slot of every week ... agenda, but I usually fail and my agendas always end up 90% empty. I think ... were all long essays or projects that would take up a significant amount

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  computer science or math teachers, you should consider signing up; if you ... teacher and suggest they consider signing up. If you're not an American any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  travels. But what if you throw a ball up into the air and catch it at the ... go back to the book example, what if I were to pick up that book and ... little to show for it-- I always end up back where I started. (Maybe bike

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... hours! That brought our total up $3,886. Special guests of the night

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... 't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  and a strong resolve to “must wake up early and do work so we can do nice things afterwards,” we woke up past 6 in the evening. Though behind ... we would for sure do it, seriously). “Can you wake me up early tomorrow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  :                                                                         October 17, 2014 7:30am- Normally I wouldn't get up this early, but today I'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  looked around the crowd, and my hand went up first. He made eye contact and ... on the project. When a newspaper calls me up and asks for comments, I ... public the most, and I call up colleagues if I don't know much about it. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014