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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... over my presentation for a bit, then stretch my legs and walk around for a bit. 12:15pm. I meet up with a friend for lunch at Cosi, one of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  my own entry about the same subject for a while now. I have also been follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my ... could potentially be a very over-excited description of what I've done for

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  passed time by throwing out logic puzzles for each other to solve, and math ... had to navigate to MIT student center. Here we are buying tickets for ... around in Cambridge: Watch out for trains. As my group was walking down a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is green for the line of cars perpendicular to you, don't! MIT does have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  back from my Easter visit home just in time for my training session at ... Bryan's blog soon! Read on for responses to comments. Lots of responses ... _ forget it. Not to mention it really _is_ the basis for the beginnings of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... for food I didn’t even find that good. So, I’ve spent the last five ... , i only knew how to make scrambled eggs and boil pasta"]how to cook for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each ... 't enough. I could spend all day every single day for weeks studying and ... kid who studied for a couple hours and got it. Lesson #1: Hard work and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  ”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips ... signup for downhill skiing, so I went cross country skiing instead. Unlike ... for hotel check in to start, I got to see my grad student friends

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  -motivated undergrads; overall, a win-win situation for everyone involved. Additionally ... doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... current lab for the past two semesters. In the fall, I fabricated magnetic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... the bathroom at the beginning of january i flew to sf for a job interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? [annotation ... , partially because I had given up on trying to dodge his small children for ... know if you ever want a job," he told me, "I've been looking for a Super

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  screen to replace mine. I hadn’t planned for this, so I walked outside and ... a turn, and dipped inside the nearest store to ask the owner for ... chatted with another customer while waiting for him to get back.   

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes ... field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors ... caffeine. i just do it for the thrill of having my heart race. so that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... items of food for each of us. I ate some skewers and a piece of taiyaki ... the 1990s called "特别的爱给特别的你", commonly translated as "Special Love for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded ... completed [annotation note='see this post for a better explanation, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines ... .  I’ve come to love weightlifting, for the most basic reasons: the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  high school. It felt realer, knowing that he didn't want me for my physical form, but just for my company. We were loud late nights playing ... right. He didn't want me for the things my first had, he wanted me for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook-for ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021