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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  People often ask me what admissions officers do in the summer. They ... applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... vigorous vacations. In fact, I'm nominally on vacation right this minute, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  real-feel temperature with wind chill factored in at the time was -22 ... claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the ... that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the ... things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto [of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... post on a happy note, in actuality, the relief of spring break only ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my ... where I spent my days eating Steak n’ Shake and fishing in the lake by our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words.  I never thought I’d be performing ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... . Somewhere in that scrapbook in the kitchen closet there's a newspaper clipping

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now ... in the beginning, whether you want to admit it or not. Some people are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in ... in a box outside 7-103.) Amongst a sea of generally well-dressed, well ... other hand, fits right in with her peacoat and colorful scarves. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  've faced since the summer ended: living off campus. I lived in the East ... apartments in Boston, the wheels starting turning in my head, and I joined the ... in on-campus dormitories, even though they can technically join MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... all and should have just been Course 16, or if I'm just in a grouchy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  of 2007, I'm getting a little tired of being in school right now. Not ... will ever exist in the entire universe--but after three years of problem ... for the one-semester class 10.26: Project Laboratory in Chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on ... anyone at MIT own a BMX bike? ANYone?" I actually know a few people in the ... grandmother's house for a few hours. Jose '07, shown in this entry, took a month

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  't be afraid to speak up! Lena says, in reference to my previous entry ... own code, circuitry, whatever, up...you're turning in your lab as an ... in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  sprinkle the remaining photos in somehow.) ;-) I was dining in Providence ... everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started ... terribly interested in the core freshman classes -- I mean, really... my life

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... maladaptive coping mechanisms, but my inability to cry in front of other people ... . For the first time in a long time, I let a friend see me cry - not

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly ... the "reading kid." I read books with friends in [annotation note ... ="1022"] i have no idea why my face is so distressed in this picture but

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put ourselves in uncomfortable positions and this is a necessary step towards ... will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019 ... confidence in the area. Some cool opportunities came my way: I was invited to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023