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  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... small books on local dialects of Zambia. Though we didn't have much luck ... , and science textbooks they had. If they weren't so heavy, I would have

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  arts college, a large flagship state university, a couple of community ... half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  the University of Hawaii - Hilo to develop the marketing plan for this ... and July). Now, for the meat-n-bread of what I’m doing, check out this ... **: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: What’s the name of the organization you’re working with again

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  Back when I was about seven I dreamed of being an astronaut. Of ... a half months ago, I thought that was just one of my many fleeting ... magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... principles of design: rhythm, scale, proportion. We watched the Eames Classic

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... in a cognitive science lab (the very lab Lydia blogged about in her

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... , but their MIT -- full of friendship, companions for psets and for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  back and re-read the sample posts that I applied with a couple of times ... Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  very least an appreciation, of science and technology. One Institute ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... of guy. So from the minute I leapt off my five-hour plane flight to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... ) and provide evidence of the completion of my music concentration (3 ... you know what happens when you assume, don't you? Well, I guess some of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly ... . I had expected something worse, or at the very least, some degree of ... Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... of a lack of vehicle I should probably hold off on skydiving for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  . From the panoptic point of view of our office, we can tell, almost feel, the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks, partially ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016