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• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  week after week, the cleaning staff will eventually get tired and stop ... seven favorite words in the English language. In order, they are: 1 ... . disarticulated 7. squalor So boy, was I excited when we were sitting around the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  list the ones I know with a brief description, and then I'll write a ... ! ------------------------ 1. Public Service Center (PSC) Fellowships -- the PSC aims "to enrich the educational and life experiences of students through leadership and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  favor, okay? You have to remind me to enter the PE Lottery, which starts tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes, okay, it's true that you can just show up on the first day for any class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  do think that during the whole process with all the brochures I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters ... things to consider when I applied to college. And so the list begins

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  whether my application was then considered in the intl. pool or the American ... citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am ... address in MIT's People Directory (and in the email I just sent you). Anyway

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... friend Chris '09 back to Plymouth with us -- his dad works for the ... silly for him to fly all the way back there just to turn around and fly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  Janet '06 and Neera '06 worked with the Student Activities Office ... 's Women's Week. Check out the variety of events that are going on. Women ... incorporates and embraces the properties of intelligence, competence,and ambition

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I ... conversation. I discovered that spinach, which I previously considered to be the most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines ... published in The Tech," and that's one that I just never thought would happen ... school newspaper is in the sports section. And hey, you saw it here first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... officially started...) Maseeh was the only dining hall open that morning, and ... Colombian restaurant near the Boston Logan Airport. Punto Rojo is quite far

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed, I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... track playing quietly in the background, periodically interrupted by the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can ... better looking. But the clearest message is that you should be richer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... dropped none of them. The next semester, this semester, I learned to hedge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  here, but when it rains It's as if all the world's water is here] kuya is the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  the inline skate community, one of my first images of a “rollerblader ... living near hills made it too intimidating to learn. The area around MIT ... me moving 5 ft forward in the East Campus courtyard, scared out of my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... likes our Facebook profile pictures were getting. At the end of it all, we

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  drew a mail carrier. I only know this because the crayon drawing still exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... job at the time. During primary school, I remember wanting to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... the school year in between my work hours this summer and decided to ... : If Star Wars and Dune had a baby, Foundation would be the child. This show

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  campus, settling into their new dorm rooms for the year; classes are starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... 's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  who represented the United States at the International Chemistry Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023