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• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of the semester! the final was for 14.64 (labor economics), a class i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo ... wasn't planning on wearing a tie. Is he secretly trying to tell me to ... formality is a cornerstone of Japanese culture, but this doesn't seem to apply

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  the Internet playing with a Newton’s cradle, because when I’m stressed ... Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to ... really hope they don’t), but nothing happens. i back away for a minute ... i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I'm ... home tomorrow and it'll all be fine." And I'm like, "NO! You don't ... the phone over to my mom, because he didn't seem to know how to handle a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  improve my 700 SAT I Math to a 730 or above and that my 800IIC wouldn't make ... little unrelated, but I'm curious as to whether being a management ... jump to a different field?" You don't need any Management courses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  ~. In a way, it feels like a dream come true because I’m finally getting ... to embroidery a loose/free/abstract portrait of a woman, but I didn’t ... time, I struggled a lot because I didn’t have small enough brushes, and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  Skiing is a class I thought didn't exist at MIT until I looked at the PE ... do miss classes a little bit. I'll be talking about the classes I'm ... a fog, an introspection i myself can't comprehend. took a walk today

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the ... was a witty combination of orientation information and MIT ... home. I was worried about the academic rigor that was to come. I didn’t

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  listened to the MIT startup mDoc, a digital health company that focuses on ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  ! _______________________________ Last week, Allan K. '17 and I did a Facebook Live AMA about ... year, I had a new dream. I wasn't even sure I'd go to CPW (Campus Preview ... Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  in August or so: I hate physical chemstry. I also don't want to be a ... Two days ago, I won a 35mm SLR on eBay! Now I have something I can use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  obligated :) The other two aren't graded, I'm not sure where I put their ... perhaps a history class. I'm leaving some time to do work for the non-profit I'm a part of, to be a cheerleader, to publish our lit/art magazine

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  100 playlist? I don't even recognize at least a third of the songs on ... ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by ... from the blogger: This was a podcast year for me, so I wasn't on Spotify

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  enthusiasm stays with you forever. To dance, you must find a balance within yourself." He had quite a point. Calling MIT freshmen "enthusiastic" was ... t-shirts, free bags, free water bottles, free alarm clocks, and even

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  Presidential Science Advisors Project SAGE Protein Folding SS M.I.T. Victory ... beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities ... Woodbury’s The Blue Wave Bionic MIT Artificial “Skin” Boston Arm H.M

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  think I’m not” I was, didn’t want to be changed as a function of me being ... wouldn’t have the wide-eyed stupor of a first-year seeing Greek letters for ... or wouldn’t fit into a space. She reminded me that the whole point was

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  since I won't be home at all this summer, I'm stuck getting piecemeal ... think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... minutes longer than Adam would have liked (I can't help it, I have a soft

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a ... laundry, and I'm still completely unpacked. ----   Some say the cure to writer's block is to have a nice cup of tea while listening to some

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  the ground certainly didn’t disappoint either. Our guide, a zoologist ... . (Unfortunately, this included a cupuaçu dessert pizza, but I suppose you can’t win ... rainforest research. First, we listened to a few talks by VJE’s Talia K. and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023