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  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note ... applicants -- in fact, we think it took us longer than it ever has before to ... . '24 of Arizona, who was named after the stop codon in DNA (!!!!), writes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  just know me in person - might know that I have one true love, and its ... since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story have stayed with me through rougher periods in my life. I can't really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can't quite describe. i feel like i've been in LA forever, but i also feel like ... 's because time doesn't really pass in LA - every day looks exactly the same

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  , however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in ... Imperial College, London — in Italy for 5 days. We adventured around Rome and ... , she going to Vienna and Budapest, me spending 5 more days in Italy and 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  Every day, we began in the same place. The bathroom, where we ... drag you out naked). Unlike most other boarding schools in the country ... of the few times everyone could see everyone else in the school

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  in this field, etc. It is no longer a question that can be easily ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... mother due to breast cancer in 2007. The day she died I promised her that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for ... .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... to *intructions withheld*. Last year, you had to click on the dot in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  designed and administered in 2014. The takeaway: young women at MIT are every ... 's controlled for major, equal leadership and participation in extracurricular ... , difficulties and differences in experience arising from sexism. Despite her

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from ... used to say, “Walk in like you own the place.” Marching through the Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... airplane tires stacked on top of each other and covered in glass. Meeting ... balls everywhere.” The message was clear – Volaris believes in

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological ... , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... and bathe in the (metaphorical) blood of my enemies — well, you get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  , rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... , all Stanford students. There are no clouds in the sky. Ever. The statues of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department ... for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... of them were intriguing in their own way, only a few were classes that ... - before some things that came up in my life made it too difficult to keep

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  into fistfights in Matt's office.  Yet decide we must, and ... :  Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a ... the admissions office a handmade card, cut carefully from a starmap, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012