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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  mean to me. I was always sort of a rootless kid. I'm a jumble of ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn't ... student government person in grade school, now I'm a major figure. As I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I ... university where you would like to study, I say "Go ahead." I'm a fan of the ... sleep as a way of helping things that I'm looking forward to come faster

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  ...). Sometimes, I don't sleep well at night because I'm worried about 2.009. Yet ... exhaustion. I couldn't have asked for a more wonderful bunch of people to work ... students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to ... during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't ... , rice is great. I'm a Filipino, so I love rice. Second, rice cookers are ... healthy it is. It's not. It really isn't. I spend less than thirty minutes a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  "homework" isn't like high school homework. I always feel like I'm never ... friendships and memories last a lifetime. 4. Lastly, don't forget what you will ... through stressful times. After all, you can't have a rainbow without the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  in Cambridge and doesn't actually live there, I'm sort of detached from ... A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... my fraternity, from my professors, from the student groups I'm involved

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  's Molecular and Cellular Biology PhD program. So I guess it wasn't a total waste ... to bottom. Now, if everybody did that every once in a while, wouldn't ... people don't agree with me (and it's easier to clean a suite kitchen shared

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  inflation, to the irrelevance of a system that moves on if you don't keep up ... meaning of "a penny for your thoughts" will necessarily change too. I won't ... function of how they exist as a piece of the world around you. Thoughts aren't

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  course not. they're asking me about the supposed startup i'm a cofounder of ... the world, or whether it was a farce. i wasn't sure if people were ... area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  entry. Don't go to China Pearl; it doesn't have a shark fin. The first ... University of Georgia t-shirt. Unfortunately, it only takes a moment to crash ... Fridays. This doesn't really make sense to me, but I'm not Course 14, so who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... some steam with your fellow applicants, on two conditions: 1) don't talk about admissions. this is a safe haven from that. you should not be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  , “wasn’t a zombie”. That’s a green light if I’ve ever seen one! But I’m ... place where I’m untouchable, but a place where it’s okay to be deeply ... you read Tier 5 and got a little nervous, don’t worry: My hair looks

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  a call to tech support, I'm about to tell you. When I show up at IS&T ... embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... normally rewarded to students), or don't get anywhere after a certain length

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be ... this by yourself, though I wouldn't put it past an MIT applicant to ... with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  I have decided where I'm going to grad school! (Actually, I decided a ... a Harvard Medical t-shirt, just because I think it's amusing that ... prefrosh, I didn't realize "pop" was a regionalism. So some residents of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed ... is crazy. being honest with yourself, too. i’d say i’m a very self ... want about what i’m feeling and how that makes me a flawed person or

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  playlists other than actually having attended a class. If I could take 21M.294 ... stocks up and hibernates when the weather goes a degree below 60F, so I don’t ... set the world on fire- I’m just trying to get by. I can’t afford to slip

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I’m ... : Collect 60 free t-shirts. I’m expecting this to be one of the easier ones. I ... you’re into that). Sidequest 4: Get a cool internship/externship. I’m

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  I haven't really done much exciting this break -- I haven't taken a ... . (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post ... assured that you can't find it in Boston. We made a trip today to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006