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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  , to “get by”, but far below what it felt like to be swimming in new ... I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... , there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you ... getting accepted to MIT. We were beyond shocked and ecstatic. We Felt All ... our classes and activities! And even though it took 5 semesters to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  images into your posts to make them interesting. To be considered for a ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... accustomed to keeping a blog make the transition to blogging for MITAdmissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use ... to bring back our [annotation note="so i would attach a photo, but they

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  strategize to get the buy one get one free deals, and somebody would a Starbucks account would pay for everybody to get the extra stars. On Wednesday ... shower for me. Plus, there's a really nice mural that I always got to stare

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  . I never expected to get into MIT, honestly, and I chuckled a bit whenever my Lolo couldn't even fathom me not getting in. My mom had tried to ... how hard I tried to deny it, but there was a larger part of me that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... , because I go to cheerleading practice and throw people around and get muscly ... ". But it's summer now, and, after walking a mile to lab, I mostly sit and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs while running down to the Senior Haus lobby to pick up the Indian food I ... remind you that I am getting a degree in June. It is my final term here, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  to visit me and we went to see a semifinal match of the Legg Mason ... . Unfortunately, we didn't get any signatures, but we were happy just to hear them ... any guy won back-to-back US Open titles (Federer won last year, he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in ... the right to carry a laundry hamper across their own yard. When I walk ... , used to completing psets by Friday morning and then simply sitting on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  centered on child advocacy, including a visit by three sorority sisters to ... power that community service contains to bring a community together in an ... to a lack of space or preexisting commitments. Eric believes that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching ... that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be ... . As a double-majoring engineer and biologist, Ling was easily able to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  , surrounded by friends. I’m wandering  intermittently to the free food table ... willing to be distracted.   We strung a hammock from the ceiling me balancing on someone’s shoulders to tie the knots. A course 6 sophomore

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  through a thick nostalgia to get myself in my car, start the ignition, ease ... be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to ... to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to ... 'd just touch on it a little bit. I love going to parties! I love going to bars! I love going to clubs! And I've been doing a LOT of that this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two ... By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on ... who tried to convince me to go to a public university, I was definitely

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a ... Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... little more wary and a little less [annotation note="To be fair I don ... on psets and office hours and tutoring only to be greeted by C's and D

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022