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• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... again quickly). And I'm sure that's all you care to hear about the GREs, so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... wanted this to be recognized. Instead I just felt relieved that there was ... . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for ... : 1.) we still had to feed ourselves and 2.) we had an abnormal amount ... a lot of cooking experience. In an effort to both improve our cooking

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to ... clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  Writing and Reading the Short Story, and 24.903 Introduction to Semantics ... doing linguistics, so maybe I'll feel guilty enough to take actual humanities classes. The Man to Send Rain Clouds (≈1750 words). A beautiful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where ... love now, as I listen to him drone on and on about distributed systems

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

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was chocolate, and granola bars, and a note. “we look forward to gathering with ... was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  I really ought to be well-rested if I want to be up and ready to stuff my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... coordinating themselves. I am no stranger to staying up late, but usually, my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  I graduated from MIT and a year and a half after that I moved to ... completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was ... Tesla rolled autopilot out to its cars.  My desires grew deeper.  Being

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz ... and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to ... found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic ... . Darryl and Marvin '10 are working on a project that uses pedal power to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... to ensure the secrecy of the design until Premiere, we even resorted to ... , it was finally time to unveil the design to the entire class! The day

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  Heads up: this post contains references (italicized) to the song ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... definitely confident of my ability to write. Then, I came here. These (high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010