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• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you ... finished watching “My Old Ass”[annotation note="thank you to my roommate

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could ... and white and blue era, but i’m shuttled back to red every time. i tried to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  rate than adding them to my to-play list. Oops! Trimps Trimps is an ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons ... humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my ... reflecting and the first place my mind went to, genuinely, was: Do I deserve ... , seeing as my immediate reaction to getting sick was thinking that this was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... got too addicting subscribing to Disney+ only to be stunningly ... was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between ... better, so he chooses where to go, and we start walking. The first thing ... different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living group, are excited to have you here :) We at East Campus are especially

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a ... next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... . The etymology of the word 'endure' traces to a 1382 English translation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  to several similar events already. A couple friendly vendors had ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the customers around me, but not to me. I can’t help being a 5’3” young

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  Tetazoo. Last spring, I joined Tetazoo on an adventure to Rumney, New Hampshire to camp outside the MIT Outdoors Club's (MITOC) Camelot cabin and go ... hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• 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.

  

  Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to ... ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... is working together with farmers and credit union members to build

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  work (Photo credit: Bobby Ren) To catch up: 1st quarter at MIT, I took P ... so much energy to each class, it was hard not to be excited. After the class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

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

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... . I want to put up an entry highlighting the various awesome things that ... want to (a) be famous, (b) brag about your awesome summer, (c) help show

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  straightforward, actually - play some good music for people to enjoy while they work ... anything to do but yell, "OH MY GOD WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE WHAT NOW ... air - would anyone be convinced if we said it was due to a severe lack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006