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  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  learning community!"]Concourse seminar[/annotation], our topic of discussion ... ’ll provide an excerpt of that excerpt here, where, in describing his outdoorsy friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  . On one level, I still enjoy being a member of hall and participating in ... the toilet. In front of me, next to the door, was a featureless white ... -aalaga sa'yo." Living alone is hard. There's no one to take care of you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... grad who later wrote the textbook on applied geostatistics, now runs his ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  future and my childhood and just a whole slew of things that i can't really ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  intervening time, I have accumulated like 5 entries worth of photos and stories ... decisions were just recently released. First of all, congratulations to all of you who were admitted! I remember getting my decision- the old

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... form of shin splints. I asked around for advice and got plenty: Stretch

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW - I enjoyed seeing so very many of you, by the way :) - I was asleep

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... darlings, but with a little bit of [annotation note="they don’t call them ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of ... kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this ... heavy. I wanted to post something lighter before I go into all of that

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

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had ... while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note ... body of water[/annotation], the only things I knew about Boston before

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  applies in the rest of MIT also. It’s hard sometimes to admit that you need ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017