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  Blast from the Past

  

  So way back awhile ago, after I stopped blogging for extended periods ... Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the ... . Anyway, I had an awesome time at the party, which was actually kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do ... . Academics come first for MIT-bound scholar Jeremy McGee began to show signs of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in ... first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to ... ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  Janice: Hey! Thanks for making time for this. CJ: No problem ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... 's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... The Center for World University Rankings, and the high school has been ... football game once, on television, at a party. There were lots of adults in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  Phoebe (@phxbe) on Aug 14, 2014 at 10:56pm PDT (I haven't updated ... lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  ! =) (Translation: As you guys should know, I'm spending this summer working for ... for a two whole weeks. I have a room in Puerta del Sol, a new cell phone (whose number I still can't remember), a monthly metro pass, my own desk at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... about the Red Sox. Because had it not been for the MIT Blogs, I'm not ... beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if

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

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  for the hourly 62/76 bus to take me back to Alewife. At Alewife, I ... . But, at the very least, I had been at peace for those four hours ... actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... directions, and if I go out at sunset, I get dizzy from spinning under all the ... spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  LGO (Leaders for Global Operations) Program at MIT, in which students ... my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... drinking from a firehose; rest assured, there are times when life at MIT gets

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 at MIT. I created @grx.chomps (originally @grxeats) during my freshman ... ’ve chomped at over 60! These cafes celebrate a variety of cuisines, flavors

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  so cute its life-changing"]30 second short[/annotation] for 20 minutes ... her with the idea...well...at least I thought I emailed her. Weeks went ... of the project and our first meeting was scheduled for 3 pm EST the

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... class is taught by the legend Gilbert Strang, whom you may know for his 18 ... class before—the homework for each class is to do readings

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  there’s a caller who gives instructions for everyone to do. at the plus ... for iap. that’s independent activities period, which is exactly what it ... tuesdays thursdays 11 to 3. there’s a waltz class on monday evenings at 7

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  learning, searching for textbooks from online libraries late at night and ... ’t have the money for another grad student,” or if they secretly think I don ... I did for the past three years in college because living costs don

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years without at ... = "I write this while looking at the Charles River"]b) VERY close to a ... been here for only 38 days, I can confidently rank Boston higher on my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  invaluable tool for procrastination planning your future at MIT. Danny wants ... uncommon perspective in and enthusiasm for mathematics; appropriately, she is ... written several novels, and is currently working on another one for her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  actually smart enough to perform at this fabulous school with you amazing ... sentiments: *dislike* for not recognizing your own awesomeness, but *like ... very much, but uh... why?" These comments aren't fishing for compliments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012