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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us ... jokes, like this one: A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician sit in ... had to navigate to MIT student center. Here we are buying tickets for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  bandit and posted a mile-by-mile account in this blog entry. It was pretty ... kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  pulled me through some of the roughest times in my life, especially in the ... in love with it. Not to the point where it was what I was thinking about when I brushed my teeth. In fact, senior year me was a little proud

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get ... ) Taking charge in the kitchen isn’t quite as hard as it looks. While it may

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  career pivots, self-discovery in a new hobby, or newfound interest in ... than some variance in my Spotify playlists, experiencing the horrors of ... in June,[/annotation] which has been a while, but considering how many

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• 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
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  them in conjunction with Ben's mom, etc.) IAP began a little over a week ... , listening to lectures, and training in the afternoon. (It's also the reason ... crawling and bruised, limbs hanging off in stray directions, back to my dorm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact ... Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... ’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... be in the social sciences (or something like that). This class counted

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... readings, in-class discussions, and essays). I really like Prof. Campbell ... suck less.  In general, I really like taking public policy classes. I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  We’re sitting in my room doing pretty much nothing, because I guess we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... - are general to all those interested in enhancing their education ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... ="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his ... waves ever so nicely at me. You rock, Ava. Saif’s wife is in the front ... still mostly fried from sleep so I suggest somewhere in MIT. We also

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don't pass by your house. However, if you live in a big city or within walking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded ... takes any shift in the winds of conversation in stride. Funnily enough ... friends, August, is a Gemini, and the similarities clicked in my brain

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  together in the TV Lounge, drink tea and eat snacks, and talk about stuff ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk ... in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017