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• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  campus courtyard covered in snow. i've forgotten how beautiful it was ... . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... i didn't know. with everyone gone, it felt closer to how i felt when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the ... -core temperature (you can tell I'm enjoying my biology class). If one of these ... I've been very excited about coming to MIT, and those moments in which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... then, in that very moment, that I had zero clue as to what to expect. I  had never listened to the Hamilton soundtrack in its entirety. I knew as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  mechanical engineering class. So while I can't really provide a success ... about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... means owning and really understanding your part, while keeping in mind how

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the ... the other. Therefore, I apologize in advance for the scattered nature of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  general questions posed recently in the comments. Mia :) -- "Hey Sam...I was ... they said that it wasn't in their department. Why can't Musical Theater ... way to go if you want to take voice lessons in Boston, I think. Kallie

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... hurricane in Boston since I've been here, other than the remnants which come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... can’t emphasize that enough!! Another comment I’d like to make is about ... , which is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I really like how Achebe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  diversity is to 'relax the standards'. I can't speak for other Colleges ... those who were not admitted, I know how hard you worked and I know how ... admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  that I haven't blogged in "forever." (The earlier back you look, the ... entries I planned but never wrote. Looking back in the archives, it seems ... her precedent I have some time yet. Let's see if I can get you up to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 2. 12:02 PM I'm in D-Lab right now (it occurs to me that I ... (I was in a single, which actually really sucked for Orientation), so ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... as I can tell is mostly a convenience for organizing judging; plenty of

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

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... metropolis of Saco in a couple of hours. I really wish I'd taken a picture ... his guest check framed on the wall, no kidding. I paid in two

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... post 25 things about yourself in the comments. HA. I'm enabling your high

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... . Longest. 7-8 minutes. Ever. I sat with my head against the seat in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... one or the other (I'm not referring to anyone in particular), but dorm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... colleagues are as inspired by your applications as I am. Regardless of how your ... Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  about interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. Now, I'm back in ... , I don't care about how much financial aid we'll have to give you ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... can, in the form of a final design project. 6.UAT - Oral Communication ... , it helps develop so many soft skills that you can use in other class

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018