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  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  /crazy/confusing sense of humor, depending on who you’re asking. Robby and I have been ... .) Played a lot of League and Minecraft On League of Legends, my favorite ... on a piece of graph paper and made an “o” in a cell at the bottom. She

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in ... the assurance and sense of purpose that drove you to follow it. Do it ... Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  rediscover home. It’s a coming-of-age tale, a love story, and a record of how ... childhood. While I still jam out to the top songs of the 1990s and 2000s on a ... plenty of trails and parks to walk through on a nice day. Now, I’m not a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  actually located on the dam part of dam bridge, and a highway runs through it ... spaces of other people’s bodies and watch as I grip on the pole and hope I ... old home, of being a child and wanting to look out the windows of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  thousand miles away from my parents and any help they could try to impose on ... , and I'm finally finishing it on the plane ride home from Boston. You ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  introductory comic, and a lot of the fanart that was on tumblr. We’d follow ... . Fanart and fanfiction has always made its home in the margins of books, sketching beyond those limits of imagination (and there's an MIT class on that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  is on remembering the best of who I’ve been and bringing my favorite ... senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes ... , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  . Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home ... season. One of my biggest lessons of 2015 (and 2014 and 2013 and 2012) is ... find our way home to our clacking radiators and the rain against the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  needed any help on-site. Somewhere in the midst of all this, Alberto and I ... our entire family tree. I went home and wanted to write the stories of ... housing there during the week and return to their homes only on the weekends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When ... engineers everywhere that the cameras on my 2014 smartphone and my 7th grade

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of ... had all the grace and stamina of an amputee giraffe on rollerblades, and ... of the decay than to face them head-on, and I spent every waking moment

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or ... knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be ... parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... is home to four couches, two giant bean bags, and an enormous projector

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  . And no, that wasn't a typo in the heading. On most of the main buildings ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... student center study sessions, a few office hours, and a lot of late

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , and affordable groceries within a reasonable distance of their home ... for $5, and that's on top of our already low prices," said Rauch ... when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... them into college, but instead based on values and interests that are ... , pursuing points of direction rather than specific destinations and trusting

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  and eating midnight breakfasts together. So, on the occasion of ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  front of a home, and a worn out door with a sign that says "love" on it ... on-and-off campus. That leaves about 3 percent of people who just live ... note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  because of the cumulative benefits of diversity on the student body — and ... educate people from every walk of life.” This and other statements on the ... focuses principally on the question of racial and ethnic diversity because

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023