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  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  from a thousand miles away. Being so far away makes me feel a little ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing ... anything particularly related to my major--in fact, my proposal for a mini

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  discovered we have a trash chute. I took my dinner up to my room just so I ... at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could ... don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  lyrics to non-stop from hamilton in this post. nothing else just that"]A ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... campus in fall, so we're in the middle of hunting for a place to live in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the ... would require me to cut out a small patch) and would tell me its chemical

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... OF MY LIFE. 1c) A quick dinner is followed by MITSO rehearsal. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... . Drank alcohol? yes 032. Gone to a mall? no 033. Eaten a box of Oreos? no ... 't supposed to do? yes 041. Been in love? yes 042. Fired a gun? no 043. Been

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  , did a remote hackathon, voted by mail, and tried tons of new recipes. In between all of that, we ate fresh pies, took a trip to Cape May, and did a ... her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... through lecture halls’ doors Proclaiming that they have a message of love to ... house us in a place where we can be inspired and taught By one another

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload ... 'm sure to have a lot to blog about, but until then, I leave you with this ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  were on Spotify. A huge part of Spotify is being able to make and share ... Procrastination by Addicted2Success. It's a web app, no need to download anything ... , making them perfect when you want to make a design for anything that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  , my mom asked me to make a list of things I wanted to do in California ... a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... their worst this semester, I talked to a few trusted people in my life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  of your plane by half a plane, making me take another plane, filling ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  really want to do. Interesting walls do not make a person, and the money ... I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No

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

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] (to scale)[/caption] The Bay Area is huge, which makes ... tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about ... their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... ’m taking a sailing class! So this morning at 11am I reported to the sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I ... or even some larger liberal-arts type schools, it helped to know that a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  interface. I need to tell you a story, prospective students and fellow MIT ... much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... Sunday. It is now 11:04pm on Friday. I therefore have 56 minutes to open a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today ... for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum ... popular, a "Pre Career Week") to prepare resumes, do mock interviews, learn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  details and snapshots, the bits and pieces that make a community both human ... office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff, I edit stuff, I design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004