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  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  whole lot out there for kids to learn about radio astronomy - most of the ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... miss listening to Indie pop. I miss discovering all of the music that is ... to that yet.  I miss listening to the Christmasy Drums of “Classic j

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for ... empire and tries to gather people to fix things himself. It's based off of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  down to write this blog.  UROP, one of MIT’s umpteen acronyms, stands ... translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging ... ’ve taken it on.[/annotation]In addition to travel journal entries of Italy ... translates to "Market of Charms," a bustling flea market. It was an outdoor

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... by generations of students trying to decide whether or not to attend ... constantly stressed out, perhaps to the point of depression? Will I like the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... Admissions website color scheme (but for the purposes of the Welcome, I ... prefrosh asked, “We’re all cool here.” To me, speaking in front of a 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  moving to Westgate at the end of the month, and suddenly we have to buy ... , forever for me), so I figure I have to start some sort of exercise routine ... the dorm from the end of August to the end of May and never move a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  decision. Also, it would force me to grow up and seek out that independence I ... bought lots of fruits to tide us over until we switched hotels. [carousel ... long time. I read more of LFE before getting too scared to continue since

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... automatically assume an abundance of resources. An “Introduction to Life outside

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  alternative was to come back early from Taiwan to do it next weekend, but of ... of the carrier, but you should be able to figure it out easily enough ... . Sighing, I resigned myself to waiting in line to use one of those machines

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  of the piece was to illustrate accents and the uniqueness of accents ... to embroidery a loose/free/abstract portrait of a woman, but I didn ... different parts of the face. I decided to do something more abstract and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  love my favorite pieces of media. Turning to fiction for comfort has ... like something to someone I'm not familiar with feels like forcing a ... Place is an incredible show that captures the essence of what it means to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I loved crafting stories, too — they were a way to grab handfuls of ... , that they’re incapable of shutting. I decided to come to MIT and pursue ... choose to major in writing, a community of writers thrives. This community

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch ... was wondering if/when you were going to start posting numbers of how ... allowed to admit each year, it is better for us to compare all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start ... introduced me to MIT, Cambridge, Boston, and a new group of awesome friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall ... -attached to the idea of taking the course, and after some more talking with

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... Boston on 9/1, I didn't anything to sleep on. A combination of friends ... procedure. It's just that too many of the classes I want to take happen to be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  reality, it's to maintain some sort of relevance, to get the comments and ... I didn't really love to begin with and write blogs as some kind of ... surround it and MIT has next to nothing. I felt a twang of? jealousy? Anger

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  electronic device. I remember it reasonably well due to the traumatic nature of ... February span, many of those earlier thoughts began to settle down. I was ... serve to pass time. The second semester of senior year will hopefully be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020