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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack for the event under my regalia. But a fateful gchat with Chris '09

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most ... you’re stressed. Mashing up overripe bananas with a fork is such a good

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  to give up on the circuit problem for a little while, even if just to ... library" (fancy name for a bookcase in the floor lounge where people stash old textbooks they don't want or need anymore for anyone on the floor to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  stood up - woah, REALLY dizzy - aaand they pretty much took care of me for ... for MIT students. That also includes ambulance rides to and from MIT ... drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  Clubhouse coordinators for outstanding leadership skills, technical and ... the Museum of Science for free (yay MIT ID card!) and because I figured ... while Kim got all checked in I flashed my ID and got my hand stamped for

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... to my homegirl Jessica. She was my prefrosh hostee for an overnight when I was a wee freshman and now she's all grown up and class of 2011

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth ... 've been at school.. I watched Say Anything for the first time and have decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  , which currently owns my life. And I apologize for that. But I'm back, and ... hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is ... that image hilarious. Maybe it's just me. My parents drove me up here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  blueberry pie for the family's annual gathering, and Adam and I made our ... . Adam's family is Portuguese, so they make linguica dogs for the 4th. They ... monster badminton), we headed down to the Plymouth waterfront for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  -perfect meatballs to show for my work. I ended up with half of one at the end of the ... remarked that it was amazing that two composers could come up with the exact same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  pieces up while the icing dried, but nothing was working for me. I was ... sorted out (and has been sorted out for quite awhile), I have a few messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... was. I had been able to keep up my pace of writing a poem a week for ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , crawled under my blanket, and waited for around 30-minutes, willing the ... render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... , articulate what that means anymore. When I was 17, about to leave Arkansas for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  't believe that Kathy never woke me up and stood in the hallway for quite ... come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  lost a few too many points on the final and wound up with a B+ for the ... you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we've been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  gearing up for four straight years of MATH. But then I found myself writing ... notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for ... with every version of yourself throughout time, for better or for worse

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  for the evening. In fourth grade she signed me up for a free class at El ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... gallon of milk every morning. I am well known among family for ripping off

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable crowd lining up all the way out to the building 56 Athena cluster ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  personnel split up between our four project groups for some rapid-fire idea ... ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January ... . For the past four months, I've been working with the MIT Design Lab to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007