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  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  (in order): Archaeology (which I signed up for in order to study ... impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this ... less frequently and with more consideration for other people. The fact

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

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  up with enough leftovers for the rest of the week. It was a glorious ... For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about FASAP, an advising seminar for MIT freshmen that has not one, not one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  , eh? So this was my day: 1:17 AM: Began studying for the 18.03 test ... up. 3:27 AM: Bedtime! zzzzzz 10:20 AM: Riiiiiing! Groggily turns off ... while mentally getting annoyed at self for being so sleepy even after

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... they be great students and great kids overall, they end up rejected. I ... college counselors spend hours crafting a recommendation letter for each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  " where we can search just for this volume. Looking up words like "logo ... […] was also to come up with a graphic identity for MIT. MIT had a seal ... different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  state fitness tests (underweight; zero push-ups; zero squats; zero sit-ups ... afterwards. During the early pandemic I had lived with J’s family for a few ... ago when on weeknights I would make a lava cake and he would pull up

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  /right, or up/down, but there are no other directions for the 8-bit mario to ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in ... ?", which was a question quickly followed up by: "wait,,,, what do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  stop for other T lines, and one of the other buses pulled up. Without ... new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together ... excited to try new things. For the first four semesters of MIT, this has led

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  depressive symptoms haven't come up for months now, I said. I'm genuinely ... that two people both ordered food for the event. I was worried we would ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  ] stayed up for 7 hrs to make a cardboard cutout and hung it from my bed in ... to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you ... up till 5 AM one night painting it. I am a very untalented artist, so I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself ... cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to-one-up ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  Eaters. This leads me to my wishful thinking that JKR is saving up for a ... for our "First-monthly-anniversary." And I love it! Oh my God, you have ... all grown up- she and her fiance moved into their own real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  easy to justify happiness for being happy but not sorrow for being sad. i ... thought is that growing up, i came up with this defense mechanism of ... simply wake up and ~decide the sky looks sad~ and toast to its sadness

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten ... admit we’re making it up as we go m: yup guess that’s liberating _____ m: okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  amounts innovation for over 150 years. Look, now I`ve gotten all riled up ... Optimist" and I love it. I picked it up soon after returning from my 4 month ... the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... for it and make my dreams come true. [caption id="attachment_116958 ... friends are moving away, waiting for grad school decisions, etc. I wrote all

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  for crashing into the moon."]hard-landed[/annotation], their success in ... ’t worry, ispace didn’t give up there. As part of my internship, I was ... make sure they were space-grade — which basically means we heated them up

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  . That I always end up contemplating what went wrong in the past few minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... , so I always feel like Velma from Scooby-Doo fumbling around for her

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  incredibly smooth; it’s going to be hard for the second leg to live up to this ... for hundreds of miles. As someone who grew up in South Dakota, I am ... note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10 ... in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected ... your water bottle every time you fill it up with something sticky like

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022