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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  tuition but also award you a pretty hefty stipend! So in exchange for ... unhelpful in the way I always hated: "Sorry for the delay, the next pset ... else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  informed Zach '08 and myself that she was voting for Obama in the primaries ... Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... begging for mercy. When I decided to take a break from tiramisu, I was in ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... leave for college, almost all the days in your life that you’ll spend with ... In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  (in order): Archaeology (which I signed up for in order to study ... those in high school, since there's an entire section on the MIT admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and ... upperclassmen in my dorm. I really appreciated that MIT had dorms for all four ... for the group. I also participated in the Asian Christian Fellowship for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... ) for picnicking or sunbathing. In exceptionally good weather, the kinds ... just so you can own your stuff (for some meaning of “ownership,” in a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... ’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good, only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  costumes. For legal reasons, their costumes were officially in the style of ... in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an ... . The same staff that is responsible for admitting students is responsible

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1 ... -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  advertisement: In other words, there's something for everyone. - From 10:30am ... for Science Writers, when the door opened. It was the Muses, dressed in ... . Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are ... weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  for being able to do a full performance in a lecture hall without ... 11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... .) > Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor are telling me I should double major in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  loudly in choir, and, for the most part, I hit all the right notes. I write ... , literally, to grow larger. The sense in which 大 is used for ‘large’ here is ... for that caliber of performance. In essence, I had an overwhelming sense

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

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  miles at least once every day for four weeks. I started to feel pain in my ... and sister who came to visit me for the first time just in time for the ... Hi! So I disappeared for a bit last semester on the interwebs, but

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  privilege in a year, or four years for that matter. Maybe, that’s the most ... the lack of privilege in your life and you are not responsible for making up for it in any amount of time. You are allowed to exist, trying

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  readings are even in English, a welcome break for my brain. One of the ... This semester, in MIT terms, is “chill.” With only one technical ... had prepared itself for hours of hunching over a computer, debugging

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  electronic center of gravity calculator (important for weight distribution in ... up for the big size, now there's a "little big book" weighing in at ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  close by for dry-cleaning? Yes. The closest place is definitely the one in ... dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship, you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006