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  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  landmarks. Well, here's why. So I got to MIT three years ago and I found out ... seem to know another language because their parents or grandparents spoke ... reason. David, my freshman year roommate, was a Mexican who went to school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super ... came down to crash at Brown. The students at Brown found us all nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... on our refrigerator, listing all the dishes that had to be made. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my blogs, I actually moved to Maine with some friends when we first got

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even ... beautiful, detailed paintings of landscapes, while others are abstract to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... , Ukraine, and moved to Central Ohio during my freshman year of high school. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  like to share it with you. I'd also like to connect my experience to MIT ... best place to study social science. 24.03 and 24.191 illustrate how classes can be directly applicable to important current issues. WGS.151 and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  . That's about all the backstory you need. Also, nice to meet you!) You would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass through the Kresge BBQ pits on my way to Burton Connor. Grab a hamburger to ... an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... Desmond. Enter the arcade. Walk to the very end. Do a couple of stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... 'm writing this from the train on the way to work. Please heed my advice: When ... grease does weird things. Anywho, on to the stuff that actually lets me

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on an iTouch or to dedicate myself to MIT for four years weeks before CPW, I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  compared to the Red Sox first World Series win since the Wilson ... readers: you'll learn to enjoy baseball and American football, really, but in the meantime feel free to use this post's comments section to talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... .[/annotation] I remember the first time the world made sense to me was during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work. i don't want to program, i don't want to solve problem sets. i only ... comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... L. '22 and Derek Y. '22 to join and we head up towards a ramen place ... finals. It is good to finally be able to socialize with people without it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021