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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home ... step at a time, with a lot of help and a lot of strength. And one of ... -a-half room apartment on the northern tip of Cambridge, not too far from MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not ... so tired. And then covid came around, and suddenly it’s March of senior year, and all my competitions got cancelled, and I’m quarantining at home

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  diagnostics on me Monday afternoon, including a lot of blood samples and another ... , so I spent it at home recovering and enjoying some of Mom's mushier ... incoming freshmen and their parents are working on their insurance plans for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... mind is on the eighth dimension MIT Mathematics Professor David Vogan and an international team have mapped “one of the largest and most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  Everything else, I can take care of. Any takers? Anyway, since MIT Cable gets ... until I can get home and watch the show in its full glory. Yeah, I really ... Carroll, Austin Scarlett, and Kara Saun. Anyway, in the middle of the recap, I came

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  -college). I can deconstruct any bowl of ramen for you, and make a pretty nice ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... years of short answer exams is total chaos. Oh, dreams and aspirations

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  revealed any official plans without weeks of students waiting and speculating ... March, pre-exodus, and wondered if I should have seen all of this coming ... positive case of COVID on March 2. From then until March 9, there were under

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  to NYC via Chinatown bus on Wednesday, and then flying out of JFK (that ... nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... Titans, and countless other things you haven't seen. At the risk of ... advised to bolster your courage and read on. Much more interestingly, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  surplus of amateurs on the road. People, really - it's not that hard. Read ... . People already on the Infinite have the right-of-way, so you must imagine ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  9 (Brain and Cognitive Science), because there's a fair amount of flexibility in choosing your classes; you get to pick six electives from any of three categories (Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognition, and Neurocience) on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  drawn on all the pages in any of them. 2020 was no exception ... hyperpigmentation and spent a lot of money on different products to no avail. Over the ... -or-nothing. One of the reasons why I barely made any progress on my fitness goals is

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  /convenience stores on campus, lunch at one of the lunch dining halls, and, since my ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... 'll do an entry on MIT campus legends, if I can recognize enough of them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  just winged it and it was great! Archer won't remember hardly any of it ... 't relate to any of this until after you're admitted, graduated, and have ... is outrageous and is borderline criminal), and a whole new outlook on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  dorm, so you wouldn’t find any furry friends (besides Kaito, the Heads of ... angel! And so friendly too! Could this day get any better? … Oh wait ... with friends in the 4AB lounge, eat dining hall food in Simdin, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for ... . Hundreds of guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the ... on Admissions," presented by Amherst College Dean of Admissions Tom

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my ... leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  basically any kind of promotion (clubs, academics, etc.) can be sent to it and ... tyranny of psets (problem sets), zoom fatigue, and a class known as 8 ... felt I was getting a lot of emails, but not this many by any means. It

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... (basically every academic building on campus) and found a fair number of dead ... against my wallet and waste tons of minutes and then they'd call me and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005