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  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have puppies), and classes that will be offered next term. It becomes second

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... different suite) every year so far. Not only have I painted all of these rooms, but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... sponsorship group boldly asked panels of businesspeople for money. For the three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of weeks, that a couple of undergrads working together could cobble one up. This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  , looking for a place to crank out 20 minutes' worth of a pset. I offered him ... old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is ... class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  behind us, and he offered to have someone give us a tour of 5th East. SWEET ... the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good ... Californian (Nor Cal REPRESENT!), 5'2", and a lover of all things food. I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did ... somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... 't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials ... Fernandez of Architecture, Professor Martin Hackl of Linguistics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet ... you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... better about being reminded about the inevitable fate of Graduating, a both ... project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  they address some of the technology drove me absolutely NUTS. (#MIT ... movie about time travel ever made; it's one of my favorite movies of all ... digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... vast majority of people who apply aren't admitted. See it as a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... clear cool night, talking about life beneath the stars - a little piece of ... start my second year here on 2E. I really like it here - mainly because of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... , so I slow down. And then I hear it. It’s sort of like a chant: "Hey

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  astounded by the things the Institute continues to teach me, even outside of ... -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones ... opinion, some of the best blogs that have ever been written for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican ... trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main ... service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of ... prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015