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• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog’ to me since she has decided that there are better and productive

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a ... ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  of college. I found that the more I was up and about, forcing myself to ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an ... seemed like a solid second bet. Besides, I’m out here to gather new skills

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the ... , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time ... to be visiting. MIT After going through the surprisingly crowded

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  turned to my friend Google. I found: A nice video story about Fleisig and ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... said that Foulke had flown to Birmingham, Alabama, last week to see Dr

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  forced me to take stock of what relationships I’ve been able to form in ... Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  's work. If I'm forced to subscribe to capitalism, I'm going to make damn ... love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed ... receiving the head scritches I am dying to give them. [carousel image1

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  important that you do it out loud) so that you're forced to put your thoughts ... . Engage them. Ask them questions. FORCE THEM TO ASK YOU QUESTIONS. I try to ... nothing at all. It was fifth grade science class. Each student had to design

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  days to be exact. It's also the first semester without Freshmen Pass/No Record. Oh, how much I miss you already PNR. I just want it to be the ... /train ride over to Philadelphia for a fully-packed 3-day fraternity leadership

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  grocery store parking lot, a woman forced open my friend’s car door to ask ... also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  applications that asked a greater variety of questions forced me to think about ... Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  resorting to brute force. I may have absolutely no common sense, but I GOT ... would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  entire work force of the factory was able to improvise such detailed lyrics ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... me. First, I went to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  to the Admissions website, and were going to feature staff and student ... he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to ... moved to South Carolina (where they were from originally) and I left my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  ’ve made it this far – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... th, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  War, according to his bio on the GEL website. Diane, who supervises ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011