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• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for ... about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and ... it was no trouble for me to just lie down, put a sheet over my face

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer ... 't make school my reason for living. I came in with an existing, established ... , get ready for the Great Injustices, er..., the General Institute

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for ... you were willing to knock on enough doors and really fight for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  ’t have the money for another grad student,” or if they secretly think I don ... I did for the past three years in college because living costs don ... cursed glowing object for the past hour. My laptop battery broke last week

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  me feel like my brain has broken and turned into soft food for babies ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You ... -together time for this school and people who went to this school, but others can

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  love my favorite pieces of media. Turning to fiction for comfort has ... interests! Still, for some reason, I'm reluctant. That makes me think about ... be human, and the immensity of the love that Chidi and Eleanor have for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  slack for my last flight: [visually_hidden]Slack thread that starts ... ." The thirteen replies are as follows: Here is my tale: rebranding for the ... earlier because i have no layover now And I'm not gonna be late for my 5

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  happy or not. I'm low-key grateful for being alive. I’m sorry that I’m not ... 'm fully prepared for the prospect of college. Sure, I'm familiar with the ... with GPT-2-small, and waited for an hour or so. The first attempt was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  for me.” At this point in the blog, I would be stopping myself, because ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a loooong list of reasons for that, which we can go into some other time, or

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... -cultural appropriation hanging bead doors on my closet for most of elementary school ... 6 shirts I can rotate for a max of like 8 outfits in any season

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the ... of the cruft (for now 😳), I wasn’t too sure what to write about. I don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  not being right for me in the long term."][/annotation] Nothing else I tried was any better. Twiddling with dimensions in SolidWorks for ... designed machines and built things with my hands, but then I ached for the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  good fit for yourself can feel high-stakes. I was super nervous about ... "]the best fit for me[/annotation]. Some people have zero problem with this ... course, 99% of the reason for this is that MY FRIENDS ARE AWESOME AND I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for a week. Putz and Tetazoo have quite the relationship, one that ... for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... irradiate my food for >2 minutes (only to get lukecold results) in our more

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a ... importance of goals in our young, impressionable minds. Just for this, though

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  company-of-the-week's mission. I made my way through three interviews for ... next night there was an infosession for Splash, with Thai food, then ... together, and reimbursing people for buying their own food. Suddenly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  MIT that seem normal once you're here for a while, but you realize are ... tetazooglounge. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, here ... receive i did not go tho[/caption] We also have our own mailing lists for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  next semester. This week, it's time for a slightly different discussion ... for being somewhat spammy and prone to flame wars) thread that got ... what the magic is at every level. Besides setting one up for plenty of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . It doesn't mean you weren’t “good enough” for MIT. Like, for real, it’s not about that at all. A positive decision ... . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology and if it weren’t for 7.01x being a GIR (a required class at MIT ... how can I make a therapy, how can I use this protein as a marker for ... depressing and could discourage you. So decide for yourself if you want to keep

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016