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  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP is supposed to be this easy, carefree "ooh I'm going to take one three ... sleeping." But then I had to be like "nah, I'm going to take a class that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the ... 't know or anything, but I choose to believe that he only auditioned because ... ! And I hear Ankur was even there! I could have gotten to meet a reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  I'm going to do things backwards today, and start with... Responses to comments: Daniel: Hey, the EMT class sounds cool! I had no idea how to pronounce that medical device you were describing, so I checked m

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my ... unfortunately have absolutely nothing interesting to report about it. The most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  drove downtown to JR Masterman, then back up to Central. Those of you who ... to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... again quickly). And I'm sure that's all you care to hear about the GREs, so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with ... due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... to take, and i knew what courses i wanted to eventually take, and so 18

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an ... work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you ... 's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... wanted this to be recognized. Instead I just felt relieved that there was ... . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some MIT friends before officially arriving back to my very-not-unpacked dorm

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for ... : 1.) we still had to feed ourselves and 2.) we had an abnormal amount ... a lot of cooking experience. In an effort to both improve our cooking

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to ... clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  Writing and Reading the Short Story, and 24.903 Introduction to Semantics ... doing linguistics, so maybe I'll feel guilty enough to take actual humanities classes. The Man to Send Rain Clouds (≈1750 words). A beautiful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where ... love now, as I listen to him drone on and on about distributed systems

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9:00. Write ’til noon, or 1; definitely not after 2. After that, I’ll head to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to ... to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their ... music. Strange rhythms and patterns, hard to predict. Not as easy to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was chocolate, and granola bars, and a note. “we look forward to gathering with ... was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... really starts to feel... poppin'. (Or something.) Departments host welcome

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018