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  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to ... , since we had Monday off for holiday. We get four-ish breaks this semester

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of ... 't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the musical then transitions to a song entitled "It Sucks To Be Me" so let

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  @MIT website. During CPW, I had the opportunity to check out the brand new ... Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just ... to answer in time, but i'm STILL struggling to decide between Yale and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  . I guess you'll have to come and see for yourself! (or get 5's on ... other. It's all about what you want to get out of the program. And (wow ... piece of advice: if it is at all possible, try to read your decision

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not ... disposable camera I’d taken pictures on to CVS and get its film developed, in ... , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... grandfather’s grave.    When I came to MIT, the repertoire of places I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  talking about for days. So I guess this is your sign to go to fancy ... was I allowing myself to get upset that people were exercising democracy ... surreal moments that have happened while I've been here. *** Cut to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... neither did my DIY dress.  I finally had the chance to dust off my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it ... four hours straight with my friends to 2010s bangers, which was the most ... aches. My legs were so sore that I didn't get out of bed for the rest of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women ... is crucial to have “someone up your sleeve who will save you,” Dr ... your comments forth and I’ll try to write more when I’m confident that I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  you're an incoming frosh, you should make sure to come. Actually, you ... after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them ... was really supportive and helpful to me back when I was running for UAVP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... soon the path to solution worked, getting the right answer was definitely ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it ... fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  you"thing. You should get a damn good lock for your bike - maybe two (I ... one of you for a donation of whatever you're willing to give - even if ... 'll get to fill out an anonymous class evaluation so the powers-that-be know

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  worm - not bad eh? Not to get into the science too much here, but the ... consistently over 30 hours per week running assays and getting results. I used to ... is that once you really come to understand your project, like really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  be finishing in 15 minutes to get to my two classes this afternoon ... seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree ... sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021