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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I ... way to Cambridge, UK; even though I miss him, I'm so happy and proud ... me some notes from his travels abroad, I asked if I could blog them to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... "] This is an old photo.[/caption] I once wrote of this room saying: this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  unsuccessful one: "It was great!"), I finally converged on this: I laugh, then smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... HP7; the last time it ran was in 2011. And it's the first ten-day I ... the pandemic. So I was so hyped that a ten-day ran this year, and got as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago. The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two hours and many questions later, I had reached my last slide and was asked ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to deal with was cleaning my room. It was pretty relaxing. I didn't even have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an upperclassmen told freshmen me that I should do it ASAP during orientation week ... you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim almost four years ago, and interestingly enough, I am the last guy that ... fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I ... the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby ... official documents, I could’ve came to MIT and introduced myself as Chloe

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  Pao, Pad Kraprow, etc. "]pakaprow.[/annotation]I love it so much that it ... freshman year, it was literally the only dish I cooked. I made it 7 times, which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there ... reason I write for the admissions blogs is because I really like the admissions process, I like helping admitted students learn about MIT before

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... housing decision, I purposefully chose to switch things up from my academic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020