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  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I arrived on Saturday from Florida, where I was spending time with my family

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks, though, are less jam-packed. I just go about my routine - running, reading, meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with ... hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much ... everywhere. That was in no way what I'd been looking forward to. Maybe

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to College Confidential. Now 4 years ago, I didn't know something like CC existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just surfing the web (read: procrastinating) when I came across an American Idol article. So, I watched season 1 and some of seasons 2 and 3, but I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  Yikes. It seems like I may have gotten Wenhao into a bit more trouble ... I'm sure that that's true. However, the disparity between those numbers is a little odd [27% acceptance rate females, 12% males], and I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  Turns out that Anthony isn't the only one who loves Amtrak. I called ... change my reservations because I found out that my bio recitation had been cancelled. I will now be getting home almost 4 full hours earlier than I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  Farai asked "I was wondering how you get by day by day with the ... a freshman. I was also wondering what sporting activities are really popular at MIT." Hi Farai, So to respond to your first question, I think I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of all, I checked my exam grade for 18.01 on-line. Then I started running ... 's that? Because I got the highest test grade I've gotten at MIT by about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  I've mentioned in the past that I'm taking CMS.335 Short Attention ... I figured I would talk a little bit more about this class. I'll start off with the same things as Abby said: I've always wanted to make cool

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done, seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... restaurants that I had never eaten at before. Beyond the statement of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I ... shut down by the police live on stream. That time I accidentally

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational biologist. I study infectious disease and disease outbreaks. I also draw space ... , achievements, etc.) I got my SB and MEng and am currently working on my PhD. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  About 6.5 years ago, I graduated with a Philosophy degree and a minor ... from Northwestern University’s science and health journalism program, I returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email ... interests, combining fashion with technology, cultural studies with art. I wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  Part I: Academics   "You do know that MIT is unlike almost any other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... movie, I said. Yeah, he thought so too, but then she said something

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  When I got out of my 5.13 lecture at 12:55, I walked from the Green ... cultures I'd started incubating yesterday. Not ten minutes later, I left the lab to walk home. Either I'm not very observant, or someone acted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007