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  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my ... ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed ... of vicarious prefrosh cheer through the next few voicemails in a vicious cycle. The telethon is a fun tradition that I think brings a really

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... the year, I can describe what happened pretty confidently. Here are some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  about that instead. To introduce the rad thing, I present to you Exhibit A: the sweet flyer that lured me into taking one of my current classes ... writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating ... can say that the time spent in Mumbai was fantastic. The ... the interaction, academic and otherwise, with graduate students

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept right through the alarm.   1:00 PM: After debating if I really

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the ... are now spread out across the country. CJ has “maybe gotten into rhythm ... March, we visited every station on the New York City subway in a 29-hour

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  ="Summer Science Program"]SSP[/annotation] knows that I have the tendency to do ... hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... , and I start grooving and schmoving. I’ll bop to classical, rap, and the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  an interactive diagram [annotation note="The new numbering system is ... the old system"]showing off the new numbering system[/annotation], build ... Gemini) uses up-to-date information and seems to know how the new Course 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my blinds do a terrible job at blocking the sunlight, but i don't mind, most of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility ... this impulse might actually be doing me more harm than good, and that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation note="like me!"]spring[/annotation] submitted their dorm preferences. The actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I ... disappointed by the Artemis Fowl movie [annotation note="still mad about this. I ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  the classes I took the previous three semesters, complete with a color coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  now. It is nearing the end of November; the first round of applications have gone in (early action date was November 1st); the last ... them in one weekend just before the Jan. 1 deadline) (but would not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?” More often than not, the actual physics causes some form of apocalyptic

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  all about my life not that long ago. In fact, the time between my last post and this one is really not that much longer than the time between my ... on the blogs’ 10th birthday festivities. And while I hardly have any

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014