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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... in India. Last Tuesday was my final day in Anaikatti, when I turned in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding ... mushroom burger later I was uncomfortably full and ready to head back, but

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in ... ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though, check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... _parser.py".) Originally, the website was built using the Google Maps API, but Google

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Elizabeth Lozada was in middle school in El Paso, she remembered hearing about ... this morning and land later in the day in Cambridge, Mass. - the home of MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I associate with growing up in New England. There's excellent coffee, beautiful

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies ... , like finishing up my IAP class assignments and moving rooms in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  the things you use in your daily life; don't buy anything extra, except ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... volunteer to work on someone's farm, hostel, airbnb, or house, and in exchange

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  sound interested in a game that her boyfriend plays :}} Well, the answer is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... night, sometimes alone and sometimes with 40,000 English fans in K

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  waste of time if they're all full! I'd much rather buy another road in ... I've lived my entire life in Salem, Oregon. I like Oregon, it's clean ... traffic laws. My grandma lives in Vancouver, Washington, about an hour

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field ... departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own application website and admissions requirements.  
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS North's Footloose this week. He rocked in the show (with some crazy solos ... his makeup off and ramble about how things were at PHS theatre back in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's warm! I spent last week on vacation on a lake with my family, where I practiced wakesurfing and (poorly) performed in a triathlon. 2) Sports! As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  family got 2 new Maltese puppers!); at a ski resort in Salt Lake City for a ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up ... just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  find in the dark (which was, funny enough, a parking lot down by the lake ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... screws appear to be in their right holes, in a 10 hour marathon lab day

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  session, woke up in the evening, had a nice dinner with my friend, and then ... is hell, i have descended to the 9th circle and am hangin' out in the ice lake w/ judas and satan :~) i spent this weekend working on a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  helped to create giant underground lakes in ancient Egypt . . . at least I ... 't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a different light and expect you to be the expert in everything. Trust me, this

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  , actually), the fireworks go off over Lake Michigan, in celebration of America ... that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008