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• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours ... to San Francisco with my boyfriend CV, who just graduated and has a ... around, and say hi to the Amish kids selling baskets on the lawn for me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  ’t worry so much! You’ll be happy wherever you end up!”, and so on. Okay ... perfect applicant—you are not, and you do not need to be. Rather, essays can ... not only to take classes and do work there, but also to eat and sleep

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  you currently own a nintendo switch, are willing to spend $60, and think ... involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social ... it gets for basslines and for joe dart. now i'm trying to learn beastly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  " and "me" more than once every few sentences. I cringed a little when I ... whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.   Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  say that MIT is hard and that bad test scores will happen, but having to actually try to recover from bad test scores and working at it all semester ... to absorb, and not just that but also the extent to which they expect

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find ... feels like I want more automation, and when a piece of automation does get ... story. I'm a person who likes to enjoy the story, skip the game, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  's just a way to get students matched with an advisor and start creating a ... and statistical modeling. In comparison to high school, I now have much ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  shuts down at about 5 am and yields to sleep. Not worth it (#15). Despite ... because it was not related to my major(s). I am simultaneously pumped and ... expertise I wish to take (#22). Enjoyable on-campus jobs are very much “a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  to nothing. The IAP tide has crept ashore and I've been simply floating ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a ... goes to this retreat at a Catholic college in NJ, and they make a banner ... thrilled to hear from them and said "Oh hi! How is everyone?" His immediate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... accidentally squashing or over-etherizing them, and almost threw up. I had to ... sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  little too much and you do have to stop doing things in order to be better ... fuel to the town, and gives the townspeople jobs. Stan’s Life: Let’s run ... , and things of the sort, I didn’t end up with a lot of time to pset

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  is no doubt that this dorm means so much to its residents and house ... being denied access to a place that is a home for my hopeful heart and ... because I was too busy wiping away tears and trying to convince myself I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  about recycling, etc. I consider reading it and decide to keep blogging ... tofu, and sliced peppers. The tofu turned out to be explosively flavorful ... -of-metaphor and delicately salted with wit, I walked to the park earlier that day

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  to self-destructive tendencies, and generally depression. Once I let go ... both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with ... got the curiosity and drive and desire to learn as old Mimi. I know old

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  apply to grad school. Your life is so much more than sets and lectures and ... Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day ... that econ set and actually manage to finish it! 5:58 — I head back to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... whatever panels and sessions as I can to help publish those conversations to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  't hope to answer everyone's questions and echo all of your feelings, but I'll share what advice I have, and hopefully it can be useful to some of you ... decisions and left with a certainty, even if I wasn't fully ready to admit it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  server, so we headed over to our dorm and started decorating. We added ... configured a music bot within Minecraft and were able to play some bops ... , the freshman class creates some sort of hack to advertise DTYD to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  Infinite. I don’t do as much work as I want to because I feel bad, but then I ... friend and I went to Chinatown, knowing that somewhere had to be open. We ... , all around us. On New Year’s, another friend and I went to get lunch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020