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  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  of the booze, she sketches, smokes cigarettes, and works her way ... front of the television to watch cartoons and finish her homework. Her ... daughter. "I can find one of those cheap places to stay and I can spend the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  which only the (figurative) voices of the artwork and the occasional ... ’re trying our best to recreate as much of the trip as possible and capture the ... the other side of things for THINK and getting to work alongside people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts and I can imagine them being lots of fun (for me

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  time to converse with our IST staff regarding the safe and secure use of ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of the plethora of information that has made its way into the gentle folds

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional ... that’s the saddest form of failure there is. To retreat and helplessly ... and make their way out to easily the most beautiful scene of the film

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  the beauty and promise." Today was the first really warm day. I ... Eden on the grass and she slept off some stress in the sun. This time of ... intellectual energy, and the endless spring of opportunity. There is also

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  surprise to any of you that my first (and likely only) appearance in our school newspaper is in the sports section. And hey, you saw it here first ... helped my chances that I live within 20 feet of the news, sports, and

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

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things ... kept the cardboard because Mariia and Emma needed to make things out of ... . Emma got a 3d printer over the summer and we had a lot of fun printing a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went ... you were flawless, and worshipped the ground you walked on. Haha, I ... his first stop. After meeting my high school friends and doing stuff

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  lot of [annotation note="check out the Reischauer, China, and Sejong ... void :/ and i don’t know what’s going on half the time but i pull everything together the day the pset is due (ish) and then rinse and repeat!! i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  -time mathematician. John is my neighbor, and for the last few weeks he has been ... stressed-out over the SATs, ACTs, SAT IIs and EIEIO (a test only given by ... the practice test book and back away slowly from the college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  the number of players, and as i'm writing about it 2 years later, i ... of floorpi's games of spirit island. the first few games didn't have a ... , discussing strategy and rules. on the server, alex would post pictures of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn ... , and i enjoyed my summer camps. but part of me yearns for relationships

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... 've mellowed out, in a sense -- the furious emotional ups and downs of my late ... and alex, ever getting advice from cami on certain matters of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  romantic relationship and raising kids aren’t the same, of course, but the ... arises from luck of circumstance, as I’m comfortable with myself and the ... ’s Valentine’s Day, and that restaurant has three dollar signs,” one of them said

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in ... Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the ... talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  any fire alarms (I heard that last semester, on the first day of 3 ... sessions, and one of the ESG administrators makes a pasta dinner every ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  style and the standard style. first, everything is lowercase unless it ... omitting of the oxford comma, and comma frequency in general might be ... that setting off because capitalizing the first word of your message is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  my first one this past semester and finished it over the summer ... first idea didn't work the way I expected it to, and we still wanted to do ... .  From this and measurements of the ROV, I was able to make a design for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025