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• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  lives on 3rd East in Next House with me. Sorry to say I don't know Prannay ... , I heard from my Physics C teacher that being recognized in national ... year has that qualification, but I could not help wondering on how much

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  learning and growing in more ways than I can even recognize today. I suspect ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... -- when my acceptance packet arrived in the mail. I remember driving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  :31." "Ahh, yes, I'm so sorry.." "When is the next one?" "11:10. You can buy ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in ... at the wrong exit and panicked, and did what I would in the States if I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... together: i was in the lab learning how to use a platereader, run fluorescent ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the dishwasher. I can’t find my dishes. I run around Random Hall sequestering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  . Then, I bought a banana plant. Did you know you can just buy banana ... channel I know.  If you like, you can post your favorite video below in the ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  when i’m unable to write exactly how it feels in my head so [annotation ... applying to be a blogger ! in my application i talked about how i honestly ... i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  there. Little did I know how much I would later fall in love with EC, not ... it would force me to grow in ways I didn’t know how to grow alone. I ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  . I had no idea how unique certain aspects of my everyday life in the US ... verano! [red wine and lemon soda] Well, you can make it in the US, I guess ... Adelaide and hoping I got back before Shaw's closes so I can go buy some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  to MIT I'll already have a week done and be in a routine. Since I can ... This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  how I've handled it over the past four years. Four years ago tomorrow ... Center) in building 16 for an interview. I worked at the LLARC 8 hours a ... than the expense of groceries, I managed to live in DC the entire summer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  something to remember. I can’t tell how I feel about this. The narrative of ... phantom. I’m not sure how to handle it, exactly.  In grade school, I would ... stayed in Arkansas. It’s strange how little I feel that they’ve changed

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... room (with a TV!! except I don't get to watch TV that often...) - In ... representation of the extent to which our room can look like utter chaos. I cleaned

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first ... dinner. So fast forward two years, I'm graduating in about 7 months, and I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps ... buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how ... wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a ... pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a ... you.) Last Saturday, I woke up in a not-very-exciting fashion, so I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  are hosting events on Tuesday—and it also isn’t how I would plan my own ... sustainable living from iHouse, because in our neck of the woods having fun ... Take part in the epic battle that is the official East vs. West Side

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  , um, buy the store brand pasta or whatever. 10. I still don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in ... of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006