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• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... I skip pistol class to fly to Los Angeles (don't worry, Mike is cool ... period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  ’t think I had much chance at getting into the Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) or Wind Ensemble (MITWE), and I didn’t want to bother ... them. I knew I didn’t stand a chance of getting in, but I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T ... derailed the T and smashed it into the dome in order to destroy its newly ... maddened drivers of the T and prevailed in the name of energy! Then they

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  I wouldn't have it any other way. Really, my only complaint is that I haven't had all that much time to blog lately. Which isn't to say I haven't ... Internet. Doesn't that make you feel special? ;) Seriously though. As May 1

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  my 2.001 lecture. You see the double-angle formulas, don’t you? Yuck. After that, I was working on my 2.001 pset, which thankfully didn’t cover ... method was completely wrong. Don’t you hate those moments? In other news

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  , playing two choruses of "We Are The Engineers" while spelling out M - I - T ... don't hold each other to very high standards of playing. 9. Apparently ... . We haven't decided what though. Caroline '08, trombone, suggested that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch-rival doesn't, and then they start talking shit about you; or, especially, when ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn’t ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make? And isn’t it presumptuous of me to assume someone else’s underlying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and shoes that cost less combined. My hair fades ... customers around me, but not to me. I can’t help being a 5’3” young-looking female. I can’t buy a $68 cup of awareness. I wish to be conspicuous and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  . Don't ask me why; I don't like being busy, but here I am enjoying myself ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... , Michael Jackson's dead!" I thought they were joking, and didn't acknowledge

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  I didn't mean to write this entry. I sat down to write about some ... . Don't save all your work for the night before it's due. Seriously ... allowances made for extraordinary circumstances - but you shouldn't rely on it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  pesky rocks I couldn't quite reach, the same steps that left me resigning ... . By then, I had convinced myself that my one, initial success didn't ... friend had been watching from a distance; I wasn't the only one who was

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  wish I had no work today i don't feel like doing schoolwork anymore. not that my classes aren't interesting, because they are! i love thinking about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  outcome. I don’t think I did enough, despite knowing that I pushed myself to ... out of things so much. I shouldn’t have felt guilty when I needed to take a break. I shouldn’t have scared myself out of opportunities to meet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  one So I left, that is it That's my life, nothing is sacred I don't ... people graduated a couple weeks ago and i didn’t feel as sad i was supposed to. “supposed to”, i guess, i don’t know what that even means. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  as I tell all my friends back home who don't know MIT lingo, Admitted ... so you're honestly kinda meh. And that's all okay! I definitely can't ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  MIT. They were surprisingly hard to locate. They hadn’t survived the ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects ... wouldn’t be able to get in, just because you are never fully prepared to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... taking advantage of opportunities I didn't have at home ^_^)  In any case ... give those to you?" "Only if you don't crash." "NOOOO I WANT MY

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography ... to pledge. Rushing isn't an easy job, and popular culture doesn't make it any easier. Many MIT freshmen, myself included, come to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  many, many times that college is where you will find yourself, but I don’t ... , don’t fret yet. Make sure to finish your other applications, find where ... again in a couple of months. If you didn’t get the answer you are looking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010