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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... ....well, "ashamed" is the closest word I can think of...of the fact that I've lived such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  'd like to point out that this is a totally legitimate reading of "Ice skate ... easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... realize is that some of these things are outdated. There is no longer a rock

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  applying so I hope you guys don't. D-day is a day of extremes, lots of people ... know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about ... knows that, but the way it's hard is a bit more transient. It's tough now

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called Sophomore Slump. My second semester was a little better.  I took classes that ... poetry. I should probably fill out a form about that.... We Still Have

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily ... places. I would be stuck in a traffic jam, and my mind would imagine a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit ... that day. The clinic was held for ten hours. How many? A thousand? Two thousand? Five thousand? For reference, in 2017 they had 7,500 in a single

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  you have to take a GRE? And how was it?" I did, in fact. I took both the ... . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... :00 PM; Athletics Fair in Rockwell Cage, 2:00-4:00 PM (bonus: I'll be in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  as in high school, but the problem is that I’m more naturally an early ... own skin as I do now. I think this is partly a function of being more ... the reason I never noticed my ambient social time needs is that in high

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  . With ~10,500 apps, it is likely that I never personally crossed paths ... The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn ... school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  . And then it came time that I part ways with Tiny Dell. In his place is ... dialog box with a not-so-friendly message. So that's how I met Jacob. I had ... up to my cubicle very sad that day but, of course, I never did do what

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly ... happy, as it will be the first time in my life that I'm not home to help ... $500? I hope all of you have a happy and safe Thanksgiving... and don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  how I don’t understand him and this is usually my cue to calmly stop ... do understand him. I still remember being a college student and ... next one. The truth is, life rarely ever works like that. I’m thankful

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... productive. I realized that my duty to my family is to do well and produce ... all the kids in our family have the same opportunities that I do. So as

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  time I step on a scale, I find myself doing the BMI calculation in my ... laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby told me that they appreciated hearing my laughter. I was surprised by how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... turns out, it is very hard to do many of these things, and I worry that I ... skills, which is also more than a little ridiculous. I knew how to run PCR

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  MIT - it's been a crazy few weeks, but I'm finally settled in and ready ... number, size, and volume, to the point that people in China can almost no ... in the future. On a more positive note, I have a single for the first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  , though, and I started to realize that maybe I'm doing a little too much. I ... everything else I'm already doing, I don't know how it's going to fit in. It ... want to take them. MIT is similar in that our drop date is in November

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  awesome part, though, is that I'm allowed to keep these fish in my dorm. Not only that; we're allowed to keep cats. I love living in a dorm with pets ... a pretty cool program that MIT runs every year (biannually, I think

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  , that's what this summer's blogging has to do with MIT. I'm in Europe ... dipping into reserves that I earned as a deskworker in Burton-Conner or in ... that pretty much everybody is bilingual. No, really. A lot of people just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006