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  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  telling you about my experiences. One of the things that gets me most is how MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get ... . In the end, I'm glad I came here, absolutely. I learned so much about

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  ^"Every patch is a memory, every tear has a tale. These are the stories we wear." - Worn Wear Buying new stuff is fun. It provides that ... puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... .”– but I think that is what makes the story interesting. In life there are ... of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  ), I felt like I should go and partake in the festivities. So I got to ... Something called BCC It's time now, to sing out Though the spamming never ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in chain email spam Remember the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  forgot to carry the actual cards. This is why I live in a dorm that’s close ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India ... TAs isn’t in his office, and I decide to leave his card at the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  changed too much. I'm drifting in this liminal space between the pre ... are moving in different directions. The incompleteness is uncomfortable ... ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  ." Mitra: "Diarrhea is genetic, too." Sam: "What the...?" Mitra: "It runs in ... in my life over the past few days. As my beloved high school friend ... window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  relevant to my life, but mostly I decided that the self-help shelves didn't really have much to offer. I was looking around me and realizing that the ... revelatory enough to buy another by the same author (Susan Jeffers) titled

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down ... child to the pika alumni trust fund and spending one fine weekend in early ... green food coloring in homage to American's favorite Irish saint. For the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not ... just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for the next 5 days or so. We hope to meet with 3 students from the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  to the bit. (p.s. this is also what I want my signature French fries to ... sitting is the new smoking and try to calculate how many metaphorical packs ... I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  [annotation note="In fact, MIT in the early twentieth century was often referred ... . What is there to study here that isn't Technology? It turns out, due to a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  thesis. The class is designed to be 1/3 thesis writers anonymous, 1 ... presentation.” (2.ThA website) Some people choose to begin their research in the ... Technologies in the fall of my senior year, and I’m spending most of my IAP here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  most useful to focus on the present, and, like, what I just learned in ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... the arm is actually moving in 3D space. What’s more is that, with an arm

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  from when I got to rep Sony from the top of a moving bus in the LA Pride parade! It was the first Pride parade that I actually got to be in, and I think the new Men In Black happened to be coming out that summer, so we

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  design process is in the works, and it’s been interesting to see how all ... The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my ... went out to my bike. We bike everywhere in Copenhagen — the bike lanes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  decide which dorm to live in for the year) is fake too! McGregor, to my ... interest you. You're no longer trying to impress anybody. Cleaning the banks of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of ... since the inception begins to question, what is there left to salvage? I ... the years and years to come? In an earlier entry, I talked about the

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

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently ... college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  why I loved it so much here. CPW has been designed with the students in ... suggested events to attend and tips on making the most of your CPW experience ... participate, what type of research is appropriate, what to expect from the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009