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  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one ... the fourth episode of My Girl (one of the best asian dramas out there, w ... happened: I ended up watching 2.5 episodes of My Girl with my friends until

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... Last Year of High School Magnifying Glass, which always makes things look

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... the northeast corner of campus; other close stops are Hynes/ICA (right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country ... know I'm not the only Jerseyan to say this: Newark is one of the worst

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole life, but when Covid struck, I stopped taking classes. For all of high

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... check if Lupe was in his office. I went to the fourth floor of building 14

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... interviews, and . . . Well, you get the point. Sort of wish I had the misguided self-confidence of Greg Heffley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid: [caption

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free ... doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  ="aligncenter" width="171"] It do be like that sometimes[/caption] Cream soda was one of ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25 ... instead of doing tricks. He got excited at the prospect of a fresh new

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... average. The delay's not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of situations the problem with being suspicious of everyone is that interacting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really enjoy seeing changes over time and I think there's a lot of different ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at the thought of running five miles one morning. I would hope my roommates ... wrists wear out before the rest of my body does, and instead of waking to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me, piercings are a rite of passage. Aside from being super cute, my piercings are

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn

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

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... sense of deja vu. I had done this before. I had searched a name like this ... wildfire. Chants of “running shouldn’t be a death sentence,” could be heard

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• 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