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• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  day to school. Even in those days MIT announced their decisions earlier ... than I did that they had been admitted. I had to wait until my envelope got all the way to California. Every day for weeks I was the one who

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  seeks to empower young Sri Lankan mothers made pregnant through rape and ... recognition. Alia has also led many other programs relating to poverty, women’s rights, and race relations. She plans to do the M.Phil. in development

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... not only because it is fun to see British terms like "Freshers week." It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which ... to day life was like. Maybe you really like skating? Maybe you really ... allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  drafts, second drafts, third drafts, galore!), trying to finish up my ... papers (coming soon to an MIT journal near you), working at Camp Kesem (it was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by ... actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT International Science and Technology Initiative helps students find ways to study ... internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... train: #5, currently on time listening to: 鱼丁糸, “I Don’t Care (鱼版)” Good ... was out all the way from Omaha to just before the train entered Colorado

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... to be released. I've spent the last week stressing over the question ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  to emails sent out to the entire MIT undergrad population, which usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  places students in schools abroad to teach short courses"]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I say “thank you” to the bus driver, so how can “thank you” also be enough

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  craving the napa cabbage and meatball soup that my dad used to make. along ... overseas, and with covid restrictions it's hard to see them. my mom's coming back over the summer, but i'll have to find time to go back to china if i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus ... many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to reheat it. i see some friends from hall. "good morning ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus, or move off campus. moving off campus didn't appeal to me since i wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  are people's spirits. So: my banana plant is almost too large to fit ... colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more ... to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing ... soul. These feelings usually sneak up on me—I never know when exactly to ... 'm over the moon right now, this good thing just happened. But it is odd to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a ... fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021