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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  from getting an early start on your project. Wanna stay up late doing homework? It’ll keep you from waking up early to work out and make you fall ... operations officer for Boston NROTC. So what did it cost me? 1. Academic

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  it was finally time to pack it up for the flight home, I wished I could ... relieved that I wouldn’t have to give up Taekwondo or good chocolate at ... ’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round ... 't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... was beloved by all, even though we did end up going a little MST3K on it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  dispersed and we can’t meet up for class anyway, we’re unable to do the lab ... to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could actually have control over. I waited for him to tell me what to do, hoping he

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  Cafe Luna, a nearby diner. We talked about Lupe's course and came up with ... up with that on the spot? Well, you do get to rhyme things with your ... him up on Apple Music, there were dozens of results. "Which one are you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  gone wrong. And I had so much moving and growing to make up for ... up with joy and relief. At the first chance for audience participation ... my friends, they pointed out to me that even if that is true for most

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... this makes up for the fact I haven't blogged in a bit! I really do miss ... Melat (another UROP) was something I wasn't quite ready to give up yet. At

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  fucked up about it. I didn't believe I was pretty for about 15 years of my ... most. I am not fond of these echoes. And I think it's for these reasons ... had come home for Columbus day weekend and everything was fine. In fact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... think of is when we dressed up for a dinner we cooked ourselves to make it ... I was horribly wrong. I’d signed up to audition for the Syncopasians

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... for a couple weeks it’s time for anyone who wants to blog to let us ... MIT for Sin LíMITe, or UROP, or become a mentor for Project Manus, or learn

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity—eat rejection for breakfast, I'm sure. For many, rejection can be debilitating

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  , I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel ... video game about the customer journey for Boston Consulting Group. My advisor for this UROP is Professor Jakobsson who actually taught me last

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my ... for fun more often, maybe I can be cool too.” Writing for fun usually ... year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  : I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for ... was back to cramming for finals. I did have friends who came to visit Boston during two separate weekends, which made for some nice excuses to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I ... decisions for Early Action have been made. We'll release the decision date

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  future or telepathically reach the Admissions Office. So for now, try to relax. Apply to Regular Action colleges (for that, refer to 2 and 3). Live ... evaluate your performance and form. Welcome to the applicant pool! For your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  . Eventually, they started setting up for the lecture. The decorations were awesome- they had balloons with the equations for surface tension on them ... a seat. Of course, for Jasmine and I, really early actually meant so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends remain here for another couple of weeks. That, and my family will be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  from field observations will be crucial for my own future research. I really want to improve my qualitative research skills: for that I plan to ... prestigious centre that takes students from all over the subcontinent for MBAs

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  for. Including me, seven students showed up to the pizza dinner (I ... research MIT is so well known for is still advancing at full throttle, across ... level there was never any need for me to see Professor Langer anyway

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008