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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  week, and probably more frequently depending on how stressed out I am ... brother <1 year, which was important--visiting the country early on meant ... gets, I can always go home on breaks to an amazing meal cooked by my mom

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... the workforce, or at once on entering it. The author ties this burnout ... satisfied. If people put an equivalent stress on their life outside of their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  on too many activities This one is a hard one because, of course all ... mechanical engineering only, I didn’t really know what I was getting into on the electrical/computer science front, and mostly chose classes based on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  about the person who put them on. Costumes tell you just by looking at ... viewers. On top of that, you're designing for actors, which means you need ... denoument of the plot rests on a visual costume transformation. Interpreting

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  .   Within the past year, I flew to North Carolina on a propeller ... to succeed and focused on getting the entire MIT community involved. At ... to San Francisco during spring break. It was my first time on the West

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  that went on once I finally got to MIT start at around 5:40!!! To be ... conversation about anything from computers on wheels to gun control. Anyone ... at MIT would be nothing without my input on what it is like to start

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... settle on the sole hallmark and signifier of America’s achievements ... and advises me to let MIT have it! It’s on them after all. And so I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on ... knocked on my door to give me "a tour of French House" (because I need one ... dark... As I rounded the corner, someone hopped out and stuck a hat on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  with a prefrosh that fit their profile, and everyone was super excited on ... have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook ... lunch about once a month to catch up on things, Jake lives down the hall

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  fun! I went on a ride that looks like this*. then when I got home I con ... projectile motion, above everyone's heads, before smashing on the floor by my ... screenshot and e-mailed it to him. He was so amused that he put it on Facebook

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  . Nevertheless, Big Cuz Q stepped in and has been providing some advice on the ... Wayne now, but I’m old-skool. I like the classic telephone ring on my ... bunch of bills to pay and I don’t really want to be a burden on them. I

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  high school I wanted to be anything on Earth but dear God not an engineer ... 'm going to let you in on one of the not-so-pretty secrets about MIT: it ... never breaking 65% on an exam, you start to feel pretty stupid. In fact

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  #12 on Forbes Magazine’s “100 Most Powerful Women” list in 2005 ... world leader and we spend the most money on healthcare, yet our health ... the money on people who are already sick, instead of preventing sickness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  start spending less time on p-sets and more time blogging... But not ... allowed to say that on here?) I do, however, care whether YOU win or lose ... some time to reflect on what you've accomplished and what you haven

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mention that at MIT, GPAs are on a 5.0 scale. *grin* Let me sidetrack for a ... . I probably shouldn't announce this on the internet of all things, but ... - a B average. (I say I shouldn't say this because now I'm on record

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  we think that keeping in touch with you guys on a personal level makes ... - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... . Thanks for doing your part to keep these threads on the right path. As you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  little reflection post on everything I've learned and taken away. Firstly ... supporting and empowering teachers We eventually settled on removing barriers ... primarily a "pen pal app", as we personally found that one on one connections

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  Hello again, internet~ It has been a while. Well, actually, I’m on ... ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... impacts have you made on your community, how could you make your community

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit ... sunrise in only a handful of hours, like the world outside was on fast

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  the beginning of the channel on December 7th, 2024, there have been 91 ... Ellie are the best lurkers/snipers on the MIT Blogs. Sometime I spot them

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025