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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... and how you ended up here. Imagine how different your life would've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... something funny in common that I only learn later: they attended previous

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... admitted or not, can never fully capture our deepest belief in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the ... off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  'm pretty sure I can distinctly hear Max in that cacophony of noise ... positions in SolidWorks.  Then, using Keynote's Magic Move feature, I ... designing and fabricating our product, and I'm not about to present it in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... 's been a while since I did this. Just writing. The words are clunky in my ... 's how I've felt, though: clunky, with a jumble of thoughts and fears and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... words, which I think means storm surge. It's in line with sigwa, a violent ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... vigilant about dental hygeine. In another sense, I'm taking a fiction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran ... spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the ... five years ago, in November 2008, when I was 16 and Max was six

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  rest can be found in the MIT Libraries. Articles from The Tech ... Technology, which can be found in the MIT Libraries’ Institute Archives and Special Collections. A map of the 1924 campus layout can be found in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in ... you got in, it’s because you can handle it, and because you’re the kind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013