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

  

  third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up ... lead up to the 2018 US Champs crippled my preparation, mentally and ... internship, I still wasn't exactly sure I would compete again. But I signed up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay ... Exeter in history bowl - not once, but twice. Wherever I may end up, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But ... different college. I knew MIT was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up and that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  parts.    9:38 - Wake up really late because my alarm didn’t go off ... vibrating alarm clocks to wake up. I unfortunately set mine incorrectly and did not wake up on time. Whoops. [carousel image1="116815" image2

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious ... place without seasons] probably brings up way too much. I’m exceptionally ... Schedule In high school I went to sleep around 10:30 pm, and woke up at

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I ... further ado, let’s embark on our Tour de Frat! Phi Beta Epsilon First up is ... (Back Bay) And with that, we wrap up our Tour de Frat! I hope everyone

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  't have access to them growing up. I dreamt of seeing worlds beyond my own ... project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was fun for what it was, though an unexpected hurdle came up. Caitlin

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the ... catch-up than a comprehensive guide. 7.03 - Genetics [carousel image1 ... normally don't have that much to write, but I end up having just enough to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I ... when strap my skates up to meet someone else in 15 minutes, I know he ... friends picks me up from the hospital in a torrential rain that floods

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  bed in the morning...I will be cranky. So when I needed to stay up to ... habit has persisted when I need to stay up on a long road trip or, y ... . Look. I could only do so much at 2am when I had to wake up at 6am to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  interviews, or sometimes just casually at work, my time at MIT still comes up ... , a man spotted my ring from another table and struck up a conversation ... Francisco, I went to pick up a robot vacuum for sale on Facebook Marketplace

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  end, somebody brings up that we should continue the tradition of ... delight, 12 people showed up.[annotation note="Twice as many as last time ... ’m excited to see all the faces, new and old, who will show up, there to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem ... than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... beating myself up over it last year, but I was right for being pissed off at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own ... on PNR,” they’d say, to be met with a chorus of denial and “shut up”s ... keep up with personal projects and care even without classwork, I’ve been

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  songs on shuffle five times and do a little annotation of what comes up ... , and every year they put posters up about it august was telling me about ... didn’t end up going because I forgot to buy tickets and by the time I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Lobby 7, where new banners were being put up along the columns. These were ... . Along the walkway across the Small Dome was a thrift pop-up for used women ... career fair a bit late so I didn't pick up a lot, but I did get some nice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  internship.   7:00 This morning I woke up nervous as hell, mainly ... even use ‘like’ in blogs!"]calls.[/annotation] I open up my presentation ... finished, 'but you talk fast, for an American.' I cracked up and assured him

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  i set up alarms too early than too late. an alarm that's too early ... wake up. the analogy is that when there's something i'm alarmed about ... about colleges and decisions; when one came up, i would try to steer the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  the few people who showed up in the office so that was weird. video ... russia, slime boss attacks YOU[/caption] meeting up with friends! the ... ? and then i pull up our group chat and point at the message that sean

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022