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• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... advertisement for one of my friends. He jokingly mentioned that his goal for the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  forever as usual and was due on Thursday--and studying for the only 6 ... a boarding Catholic high school—for my fiction humanities class. I went to bed around seven, slept for five hours, then headed to my writing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with ... report for Stu & crew; I figured I'd blog mine! Wednesday, July 13 ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  or two digits. For example, "Course VI" (which is the only one written ... jargon) is MIT for "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Below are all of the names and numbers for your convenience. As a funny side note

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike ... Jones waiting at the table for me... and any other prefrosh. No matter, I ... , check Friday Liveblog), I knew that MIT was the place for me. Now to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I ... and on, all for about $10-$20. This year, not as many bands come into ... bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things ... working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for ... to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism ... 's easier for us to notice this in other people + people are more open in some ... than people from other schools. smart technically passionate respect for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I ... field, which I would use to combine 18 and 21W. This was the plan for two

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... The Center for World University Rankings, and the high school has been ... become a role model to the bulk of the community that watches. For the past

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  ??? Should I be posting words when I have to actually be writing words for my ... westward, some for grad school and some for work. Andrea M. ‘18 and I got an ... [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  of a more comprehensive post that i wrote for myself but didn’t think ... places, and i was too tired to look for more options: a large quant hedge fund, let’s call them D. i had an offer for a quant research (QR

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  you in Europe?!” I rode the high of my “European” adventure for a few ... that could give James Charles a run for his money. When [annotation note ... . Students have some choice for their final two years of mandatory education

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... university known for its fucking agricultural school!” — i FELT that. with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  's relatively well known that, in addition to MIT's fervent love for STEM and ... residents"]i3 videos[/annotation], I finally settled on my future home for ... spiraled through all the possible dorm options for me, excluding one: Random

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... order to register for the Dopey Challenge you have to prove that you're even remotely qualified, which means submitting a "proof of time" for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to climb Mt. Fuji for the past few months, maybe because I don't know when I ... the way up, but not for a particular reason any more palpable than the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  ="113867" /] the days walk by and i wait and i wait, i wait and i wait for you to ... just wait and wait but i am getting too heavy for my hope but the stench ... ="I wrote this after reading 'Waiting for Godot' so there are some vague

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025