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  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... 's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its...artistic...nature. Right. In other news, I chose a major! It's an awesome choice that doesn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... willing to forgo this summer so I can get to MIT as soon as possible. I can’t wait to get out of here.” I couldn’t have imagined all the changes that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  sitting in my room reading the problems. I ignored this and walked along ... clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the ... themselves are in many ways responsibilities - I am thoughtful and care deeply

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  my Dad's money in exchange for the best education I can get. I hope I ... experiences I’ve had this year. When I got into MIT back in December, I ... times), and instead of whipping out my map, I took that as a chance to ask

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... Here is what I bought at Shaw's (the local grocery store) last night: 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  check it out. I'll be playing Silly Girl #1, a demanding role for an ... /Meet the Bloggers, be sure to wave! I'll be giving out free high-fives all ... Campus Preview Weekend starts TOMORROW! Are you pumped? I know I am

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  cognitive sciences). If you can’t find me in class, I’m commonly found with my ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  living, because that's what the computer was clearly for. When I found out ... of this was because I grew up on Macs, and so I've always thought in Mac. I can make a Windows machine go, and I can bumble around a *nix

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  in its foods, language, and people. And through all this, I can now say ... was so shit, but regardless! I started writing my essays in early ... music Filipino identity Boeing internship I left out a bit more of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  never seem too far but four years can feel like a lifetime. But I digress ... year" but in reality it's just where I'm at right now, which may or may not be what I was feeling earlier in the year, or even last year. This

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  do want to put in enough time that I can see some progress every ~2 ... In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... manage your time, certainly, that crucial skill you can show off in a job ... by you I mean of course me, can't enjoy music the way you used to. Can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  I fit in ethnically at MIT. I've never really felt out of place, or ... topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  community and hang out/support each other in a group. i'm personally not in a ... 't posted her igloo post yet... sometimes procrastination works out in your ... stay in touch and support newer members, and i like my famline a lot <

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... before hand. I'm as scheduled as I possibly can be (which is not a lot ... into the context of SSBM and balances everything out. I usually play Link

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best ... this: Bunnies can be found on Killian Court at midnight, and in front of ... they seek sustenance in the bushes) and go out at night (while they

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  . They scare me, but I take them because I can hear my mother in my head ... to try to find out what's wrong with me.  I also went to the MIT ... me of analyzing what is in the foods I am eating and determining which

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  that is since I can't think of any single majors in math that I know. A ... leave at all. It's snowing so hard right now that I can't see across the ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have ... to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... him I can hear him wailing with the most sad meows you can possibly

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015