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• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized ... person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27 months at MIT so far. Somehow each morning I can sort through this mess

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... and cheeses live. In fact, I drew them in pencil, traced them in pen, scanned them in Hayden Library, and recorded my screen with Quicktime as I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can ... never made any real friends in mit A: oh B: i mean, do you feel like you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  , to reflect how I see myself to those who see me.    In high school, I ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent ... took everything in me not to add to my schedule.  Above all else, I love

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... willing to forgo this summer so I can get to MIT as soon as possible. I can ... would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... 's over"). I can't overstate how wonderful it was -- like a third way of ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  abandoned it in favor of Google Keep as soon as I realized how many things I ... Being organized is fucking incredible. I like limiting stress in my ... journaling, which I took up in my junior year of high school because I was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... among them, then all I can say is that MIT is just another place. If it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  that I can continue to say that I’m in the place that I am because, many ... past Nisha, and to all of you, that I can, in fact, continue to say that. ... , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my friends and ask how they're doing. do this regularly (toons does this ... friends to do things that i want/need to do and sometimes they will say yes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... letters, I can try to address them in the comments below. But my main point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  . I managed to squeeze some time in to go into Boston in between picking ... - what I - hoped for. I had felt the despair sinking in for months now ... began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... few people walk by and I wonder vaguely how much it looks like I am ... Unni, how are you supposed to put the lock in the holder?" "You slide it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... as early as you can! But since I was in such a time crunch, I printed ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I ... I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... wonderful readers out there. I followed them around campus while they talked

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  yo-yos. Mills can cut in 3 directions, (X, Y, Z), which makes them ... of my favorite lecturers in MechE, but on that day, I could barely stay ... for, uh, weeks. I eventually got one in, but by then I was too hosed to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  bikes i just don't like riding them. have i told you how i can't ride blue ... how to fall wayne: uh cj: how bad could it be wayne: once someone i ... wayne: it's just like walking, you put one foot in front of the other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... closely in 21L.009 Shakespeare my Freshman year, so I was I excited to ... during the play-ending thunderstorm. Still, I can't complain too much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005