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• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  "Paper Rings."   Here is an actual thing I said recently: "I've bought my plane ticket home, but I haven't bought my plane ticket home yet." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20, who said, I feel like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... among them, then all I can say is that MIT is just another place. If it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... , I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television, sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  Hello! If this has been posted, chances are, I’m now miles away form MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the mix! I currently have two UROPs, one in Biology and one in CMS. It takes a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  lifts to reveal a fascinating life. I have found my perfect match, my ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition terrifies me, as I expected building strong connections to be difficult, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to continue my adventures here at MIT by doing all the things. So when I got an

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I rented my first apartment; I had to find furniture for said apartment; I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the ... musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much smaller role in my life. I was very wrong. When I came to MIT last August, I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up ... exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  . Don't ask me why; I don't like being busy, but here I am enjoying myself AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half of 2 ... , and poetry. These are things I could have worked on tonight. Instead

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  I know, I know, it's CPW season, but that doesn't mean that every blog entry has to be about CPW, so I'm going to treat you to another story. I had very little physics experience when I came to MIT. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  little while longer), but it's not depressing, because I'm taking classes that I want to take, classes that I find interesting. August is exciting, because I'm moving back into my dorm. And most importantly, friends that I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back. --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving that story all over again. I thought getting my bachelor's degree would

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  squeeeeeeeeee! real blog entry later today.

  

  I <3 Harry Potter. http://www.scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/news/press_02012007_CP.htm

  • by Bryan
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of ... about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo of the Day – Installment #1 Photo of the day #1

  

  While I try go get in the swing of things with the start of the semester, I'll begin what I hope will become a new tradition (pending the availability of interesting enough photos. Here's the first one and I think it

  • by Bryan
  • September 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players, Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006