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  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Houston ... you figure it out), I proceeded from the hotel I stayed at Wed ... Jones waiting at the table for me... and any other prefrosh. No matter, I was on a mission. Since Matt Mcgann was occupied on the phone at the

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they’re being held taut under tension. Emotionally, I feel as if I’m caught at the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  keep up with someone who knows what they want to communicate at every ... at R, now a popular tech company, and how working there was very ... using his work. i asked him if his time at R would still have been

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same ... . we're not getting paid for any of this. we just like it. at times, it ... such a large scale, sheerly because you're interested in doing so. at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  punted it down the road, and some made no changes at all. For me, it seemed ... to discuss this at instructor office hours, which would not occur until ... afternoon; I sat there at my desk, fuming, not really doing any work as my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon. Except it’s not that simple. Some days, I wake up at 8 by some messed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  twelve friends, where I’ll stay for at least for the next 2.5 months ... , Purell, and surgical gloves. My sister pick me up at the airport. It was still so normal two weeks ago, just two sisters laughing at each other

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at MIT. I realized I've been learning wrong my entire life, or at least ... really stupid" or "Yeah, I don't understand anything at all" as crutches

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... poetry slams. There are also free talks at the Harvard Book Store that are ... summer, there were free museum hours during the Summer Solstice Festival at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... recommend you loft your bed, and loft it high. My fear of heights—at least ... at the open window to my left. I was terrified at first, but some time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... look at what he had left: Run a bridge loop Take a class at Harvard or Wellesley Go clubbing on Landsdowne Street Buy clothes at the Garment district

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  SOMETHING today. So I made a nice schedule: I would wake up at 9:30ish, watch ... 00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  : Thursday night at 7:30, things get kicked off. The keynote speaker is Prof ... Services Session for Parents: Friday afternoon at 1pm, Director of Student ... , whys and whens of financial aid at MIT -- how we determined your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, you can get SPAM at Mc ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  at all where it usually is, but I know because I've put it there and I ... kid and some of those dislikes have stuck with me, even at 19. I dislike ... gruel and I'd look in disgust at how they had ruined the very nice thing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  Thanksgiving at MIT has always been just a paltry two days off ... . I helped out at the tournament, and then left for my house's weekly 11 ... at 1:45, I was worn out and hungry, but looking around at all our newly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched ... competition math, and realized that being proficient at something is different ... undergrad experience have, at this point, come and passed. I'm clinging onto

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  this time spent living at home to do the things i don't have the time to ... fulfilled—at MIT, i only needed dance, but now just that isn't enough. i need ... classes at my high school and the rest at a college, so i spent a maximum of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  associate with cool experiences. as of my last [physical] day at MIT ... first song i learned on a dance team at MIT. every time i hear this, i remember the exhilaration of dancing at the audition and the subsequent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020