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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  get help with managing missed classes. They are going to encourage you ... and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  the last several months, as you have been waiting to find out your ... staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing ... different from yours. This opportunity, in fact, may turn out to be the one

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  money and means to do it, but you're in a box. You have enough affluence ... Being as musically obsessed as I am, it'd be impossible for me not to ... musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... heart. That's what I'm trying to do, at least. You're gonna be great. ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  and the court gets all muddy and before you know it your pants are wet ... of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ominous dark skies today and what was forecasted to be a partly cloudy to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... thing I didn't get a super burrito, since after paying for the regular

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  sometimes the things that you are most scared of turn out to be your biggest ... in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on--that you're ... garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... -school counselors get together, they have plenty of stories to share about encounters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... solitude between 6 am and 8 am. Halfway through your run, take a moment to enjoy the sunrise. Stick a colorful flower in your hair. Say hi to the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ’s vision come to life. Meeting her, getting to know her, is like taking your ... such casual import. We have two to three meals daily, and we should get ... know what you’re gonna get. Love, MINCE.” The head chef of this event

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... nation I'd always loved was finally getting to know and love their LGBTQ ... to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... . (Though listings are far from the only opportunities available - if you're

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with ... all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  -down, I want dinners together, and parties at midnight; I want things to get ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family ... . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... is hard you're all in it together with your classmates. Then you will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  ; your decision should arrive any day. I know that your frustration is ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  need that exact word, you get your point across just fine by basically ... quite amusing. I will try to explain this without getting too ... said to me: "You're how old?! Oh my God, you're a baby!" ...exact words

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008