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• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp ... happy, healthy family that hasn’t been affected by cancer. The kids I meet ... called cancer and that it was bad. It wasn’t until some of my high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it ... didn't delete it, though. I let it sit in my inbox and stare up at me ... would be, but pointed out that that wasn't a reason to not do it. Since he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , mailing lists haven't been in vogue since before Nick Carter was but a ... drive, and I'd planned on driving it until I couldn't drive it any more ... diagnosis wasn't good. The brakes were shot, yes - as was the clutch, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... to inflict serious Hitchhock-esque damage to your person if you don't ... . Linda: I took it last year. The problem sets are hard. Me: Really? It can't

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  about and look at science? 21. Even if you don't want to major in science ... love the humanities. If you haven't noticed already. My favorite class ... , as a complement to my life (aka. I don't have to actually "major" in it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don't ... , it got to the point last year where I wasn't sure what I'd learned ... wasn't convinced that I had learned any of it. In high school, I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  that it has been a week since I first arrived at MIT. I won't dwell on ... out for us. I am realizing now that my words aren't as interesting as ... , not used ones). W/ such great availability, there shouldn't be a need to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  last night working on my ICE-T ("ice tea") problem set. To answer James ... , MUCH safer. Just don't, you know, break your cell phone open or anything ... , among other things, and I haven't yet learned to efficiently budget my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  concerned with boys, but I'll try valiantly to pick out the pieces that aren't ... high school; it wasn't superb and it wasn't terrible. My graduating class ... strong!), and I personally didn't care one way or another whether the other

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... these problems, so why don't we try that?" And I was like "hey! That was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  safety or housing prices, these questions don't actually have "good" or ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... that it's the most wonderful place in the world... and while you don't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  stuffed me on the 10:30 AM bus anyway, which they don't really advertise on ... city opened up to you that's only a short bus ride away. If you don't ... price that can't be beat. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Impose yourself on people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  grade, my friend had this grey t-shirt with the iconic MIT rectangle logo on it. At the time I didn’t know exactly what it was, but I did know it ... . Christian: Nope. Cameron: No, I don’t think I knew anyone—not even in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  there are many more flavors sold in other markets; I couldn't possibly ... : original, chocolate, and vanilla. Even if you haven't tried them, I don't ... to note that I won't review every single flavor combination - for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  Cycle of targets, and there can't be any loops: in other words, the hunter ... ': times or areas where you're safe, and can't be killed. (these include ... tradition: i was a wingrep for 2E last fall, so i ran the game, but didn't

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  haven't read the part that was posted before this, scroll down to the line ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS ... we still don’t know the structure/exits/entrances of MacG. (We did

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  the internet everyday, so it hasn’t been that long at all. At most three hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven’t ... !) (and also hands and feet, in case that wasn’t clear). I speak Chinese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at least we aren't on the other side of 36!" Me/family member: "Umm ... , while North ranked 143. It isn't fair, and it doesn't make sense, but that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  , video games... but I wasn't sure how to express those topics uniquely. I ... admissions officers." I don't know how much of this min-maxing was really ... experimentation without… accidents. Sometimes, there aren’t bananas for a strawberry

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 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 ... is an absolute STEAL for when the T doesn't go where you need and you don’t have a car. [Having a car on campus is pretty impractical unless

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025