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  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  . It didn't look that bad on Google Maps after all! Since I didn't want ... My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas myself, nor do i really get the whole christmas spirit thing. but it just ... performances. i had already forgotten the joy of listening to live music. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  meals, I tried out a new chicken marinade (it's the first one on Google ... IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  have fantastic-looking hair all the time? Me too. I have a real entry on back order (in my head, since it got DELETED), but I just wanted to let you guys know about a program that I participated in back in high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the ... little research on the web, and think of some questions to ask. Remember

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  them, four classes per semester is my limit, so, really, I can take very ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... than myself. Mostly, they lived in Google Documents that I shared with ... Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  agree. However, for the purposes of this blog and my future ones, I will ... (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I am particularly emotional, in which case I will resort to “PSET” or

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  one of many things. I’m thinking maybe an alligator with rollerblades ... for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say, “Grass. I lied about the wheels. Ha!” It’s the epitome of the anti

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... depending on traffic and wait time between connecting busses. I usually prefer ... happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know ... students that means sweaty palms, quickened paces, and anxiety that WebMD can ... , then you are who I'm talking to right now. There's just one thing you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me ... of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short post. 1: I got pushed off the MIT Admissions front page. If you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the people you call Mom and Dad. (I'm sure that you call them other things when

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time, there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they have mandatory lectures at the same time, but if I push back class B to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  I have done exactly three things since winter holiday ennui sprouted ... keys obnoxiously expired while I was busy playing minesweeper* or something likewise pre-installed and useless. *I kid, because I have swept

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  with new giant robots fighting. Wow, it's been a while! Wow, I've been ... memory. Anyway, I learned in high school that excuses are like dirty ... again if you turn them inside out. But the point is: no excuses. So I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  “It'll be over before sunrise.” The first time I heard it, midnight ... Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time doing. I waited because I naively hoped that life would settle down into a rhythm before I profile it, but also because I was procrastinating as

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  Now that things have calmed down a bit at work, I finally have some more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I ... recognize them as the closing act). I never ceased to be amazed by these guys

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009