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  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  not today at all, but rather two years ago. More precisely, senior year ... . Laugh at it. Make a reading list. Try to finish it Read book ... friends at night (e.g., suprising another friend at their music performance

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  sandwiches and phalanx-like carrot sticks at exactly 11:55 AM. Never did I ... *, probably because it was taught at 11:54 AM and my watch was running fast that ... semester was like eating a large bowl of Lucky Charms at 5 AM after spending

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  them is checked out at the library ^^;       (nf ... ’ve been trying to diversify the books I read. I’ve at least successfully ... the book that I have re-read every summer of college, from 2014 til now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  wacky architecture, there's a large presence of dorm culture at MIT. In ... repeated itself. I called my boyfriend at the time and started researching ... BEHIND MY BACK?? At this point, I'm basically freaking out because my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  , interning at a writers’ retreat, and backpacking through Europe. This break, I ... exactly one journal entry, begun at 3 am and completed at 4, after which I ... , etc etc. In hindsight I had consumed a Monster at 9pm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  tradition at my company, see: every time someone has a birthday, an ... engineers all look at each other; “Cake?” We scramble from our seats and ... taste much better when they cost 10 krones (~$1.50) at the supermarket

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  ; Just a GIR I put off til sophomore year because I wanted to take some ... Semyon is teaching it and he's a very kind little man who dances at the end ... pandemic, we just sit at home and be sad. 15.312 - Organizational Processes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  ."]Aether,[/annotation] at one of my friends’ encouragement. Aether is,,, adorable. I love him ... games on… but at least I never claimed to be a gamer hehe"] other ... anyway. Her life at MIT was interesting to say the least. Things took an

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of happiness this weekend :) My floor's annual party, DTYD (Dance 'Til You Drop), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  morning, I woke up at 10:00 am. I changed clothes, and brushed my teeth, and ... —one hour til nearby dining halls would close. I put my work away. I pulled on ... couldn’t stop smiling. I couldn’t stop smiling as I tapped my ID at the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  wait til this weekend for the Ypsi Regional at EMU... Were you on a FIRST ... ungodly hours Wednesday night finishing the 18.02 pset that was due at 1 PM ... did not get much sleep Thursday night. At all. Then I got my 8.02 test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  I have experienced love before, at least I think so. Awkward hand ... sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... love was the twisting in my chest I felt when he looked at another person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  drinking from a firehose; rest assured, there are times when life at MIT gets ... before a meet? Save your candy ‘til later. Homecoming on Saturday night ... LGO (Leaders for Global Operations) Program at MIT, in which students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  looking at the stars til later   mid-September. honor me, honor me ... so empty, with nothing happening at all except a lot of work and ... that at the end I had done more things I care about imagine  more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  one cried, as we all gaped at him. "It seems that your students are a ... GLANCE AT ANNA'S RIDICULOUS THURSDAY 12:48am: Finish my 8.022 (Electricity ... publications. At 2:31, my Eureka! moment hit. What about a BLOG POST WITH POETRY

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  just plain answer entries; I prefer to supplement them with at least some stupid story about how I gave blood or ate at a foodtruck or stepped on a ... anyone at MIT own a BMX bike? ANYone?" I actually know a few people in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  ="dance til you drop, an annual party hosted by my floor, Burton 3rd ... I met up with some alumni at [annotation note="the pub that for some ... performed at 7:15, we were quite late. it didn't help that Bhangra costumes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  Creativity - thanks for your post and I am so sorry to hear about the student at your ... . Thank you for saying that. At the end of my junior year of high school one ... sacrifice your true passions to get that A in French, but at what cost? Let

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  's zoom, or seminar classes, or non-STEM classes at MIT, but it feels like I ... fogged in the cold. I thought of my bookshelf at home, with this five ... blinds, I moved to the floor and slept til eleven. So it goes. Today

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  ‘til the mountain closes at 4pm. We head back to the cabin, go on a run ... favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at ... at an externship, travel, or really whatever the hell they want. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016