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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  saying it is bad to be influenced by those around you, in fact that’s how ... conflicting ideas. There will almost certainly be times where you have to agree ... to disagree and parted ways but the more I thought about it the more I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found ... chance that I'll go to grad school, but it certainly won't be for physics ... course 6 classes to be fun and engaging, even when they were hard. I find

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who ... zone! :) ) I've made my new year's resolution to try and work out more

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a ... sufficient. At home, I consider cold days to be days where omg I am actually ... sleeve shirt will be all I am required to wear. Fall clothing means

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  . To be honest, I was completely and totally sick of snow by the end of ... little concerned that Adam and I would be unable to go out to dinner and ... . On our way to dinner, Adam made the brilliant decision to jump over a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... often there are actual realizable fears that subsequently have to be ... sister would feel pressure to find ways to comfort me and in so doing just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that ... being busy. It's probably reasonable to limit yourself to one ... you'll be seduced by things like the First Year Summer Mailing over the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  't ride the subway enough for this to be worthwhile, you can just pay each ... stops appear to be in a straight line from each other on the T map, so I figured I'd be fine. Yeah, not so much. I ended up getting lost in Boston by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  been changed to avoid incrimination by PETA. But uh, yeah. Be safe out ... to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... and seems to be dying to see the world. He’ll be following me around as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... statement, though. The real claim to being “from Hawaii”–to being a true ... ’m not proud of. To be honest, my solution in high school was just… not to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map: After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  me the perspective to not be wobbled by it? Was it the constant ... come your way. Be content to be content. Remember your younger self ... . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  (anecdotes!) -- Why you applied to MIT, why you think it would be a good fit ... 's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... flight that had been delayed by two hours. So, I got out my laptop and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  so much energy to each class, it was hard not to be excited. After the ... – and in the most respectful way possible, it felt awesome to eat away ... -death-in-over-time loss by 1 point…Those single, critical points could easily be converted

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  jump to what might appear to be a TOTALLY different subject, but it ... hard to believe, since everyone has this image of me being this cold ... autograph! (Really, I watched him sign it!) About to be obsolete! Authentic

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  messy, so it was a little hard to take pictures of the steps along the way ... , my plans are greatly dictated by what weather Mother Nature decides she wants to have in Boston that day. Who knew it snowed in Boston?? (Just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... and after, etc. Crazily enough, even though that was way back in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  12 hours and counting until CPW. Here are some places where I'll be ... the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture ... expected almost everywhere in the country tomorrow, I suspect there will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT ... , and another for an acapella group, MORE[annotation note="to be clear

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  asserted its permanence. They refused to be limited by the conditions of the ...  https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the ... documentation. smartphones, cameras, microphones, VR, give us new ways to bear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017