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  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a ... It's been a while since my last entry. Right now I'm visiting my mom ... two weeks. You know, until I arrived at MIT, I didn't think I had a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  officers here, I'm known as the girl who draws things during class and has a ... best of both worlds - I'm a 10 minute walk away from the best parts of ... . Sometimes I think my path to MIT wasn't a very normal one, but I've realized

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn't ... were so grimy that Amritaa '10 wiped her face with a cotton swab and found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  us that there isn't a great feeling for the government here. Many ... ’Assainissement, which is the national Haitian drinking water association - they organize a ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... ), so getting a $40 per month cell phone plan isn't as staggeringly costly ... . Of course, I actually paid $125, but it's gonna take a while before I'm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  exploring a different field, which was biomedical engineering. I don’t know ... , if you haven't read my bio) is an agricultural state. I knew a good ... for someone who wants to be a CS major. I’m taking [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... thinking that i’m worse than other people or that i don’t belong, but rather that i don’t believe in small sample sizes. i know i’ve done a few things

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn't injure myself again, but it still just ended up being a long, long, long ... was a most busy and miserable day that can be summarized in one sentence

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  -two clubs; and then I remember I’m a sophomore now, and soon I’ll be halfway ... another on flex P/NR, and sometimes I’m upset that I haven’t just gotten ... job of holding things together during a weird semester, and that wasn’t

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  -caliber fastidiousness and acclaim," I think I'm a 6. Maybe a 6.5? I don't really know. I ... I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think I'm enthusiastic about food nonetheless. On a scale from 1-10, where 1

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  first, I wasn't buying into it. I've always considered myself a very ... about applications and a mEng, my GPA and the quality of my research ... synopsis of everything I haven't blogged about. I spent a week in New York

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the ... weasel out of ski lessons, since I don't own a pair of ski pants. So this ... and E&M). I'll note that I'm not a huge fan of math, but even I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... , just like a normal person. I was so excited to have spotted him (I'm kind ... a question to which Professor Sheng didn't know the answer, Professor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My ... good kind of exhaustion I haven't felt in so long, that of a day well ... The Muppet Christmas Carol. I didn't vote for it, but I'm very glad it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  , and it came out just a few months ago. My raging school spirit inspired me to choreograph a piece for MIT. The app is surprisingly easy to use, even though I've never been in a marching band (or any kind of band). The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  ..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I'm ... I'm out of touch is that I haven't played video games since Super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  , and not infrequently. And this contrast is key. Perfectionism isn’t a ... writing this post was hard, since I haven't posted in almost a month and ... again. There has to be a middle ground, though. I'm still looking for it.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite ... . There were a few giant red flags on the first day. I won't go into all of ... wasn't going to be a great place to work. When I tell people this story

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  me, I'm pretty awful. I have an R2-D2 trashcan that cost quite a bit of ... 'sup yall? Sorry I haven't blogged lately. The truth? I've been ... , I'm not registered for any classes until next week, and I have

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009