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  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  settled: I needed to learn how to crochet so that I could make stuffed ... working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... how to crochet to one of my direct supervisors, which was how I found

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... Street in historic Old Port. I caught lunch just a few steps away at Mim ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  upstairs. In some ways this is exactly what I predicted a startup would be; in other ways, it’s better.  I’ve been just over a week in this city ... ="alignnone" width="225"] some ducks I would encounter[/caption] June 3rd. Tucson

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  , "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... it this way: How would you describe "gonna"? Where did it come from ... gonna- "I'm gonna buy that book." But what about another example- "I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  . After all, what else would you have said in that situation? Alan: I mean ... stormy. I was visiting Shuli in East Campus one night, and, afterwards ... petty games, Alan. I'm so above petty games, in fact, that in that evening

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 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 ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  back of my door -- mostly because I needed to know how they would look on ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... story of how my door finally got painted! When I moved back into EC this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  of confidence which I knew working in tech would bring.  # The last ... ’ in it would reject, we want.” I’d passed a lot of magazines with the ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  begin with.  I wasn’t planning on buying anything in particular, but then ... song is so well written and there’s so much raw emotion in it. I would ... of them was in my hands, so I had to buy it. I’m not sure what I’ll do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  conditions. I could sit here and write until I’m blue in the face about how ... would flip almost without warning. I could write about how much I miss my ... write about how I long for another chance to buy a five-dollar boba at

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  engineering in mit, but dont know how to do that! i am taking SAT in february ... Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... /call my EC? Just "Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm applying to MIT... I would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• 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 / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... their aptitude for math and science. That's how committed I am to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't as difficult as I thought it would be. Just pay your rent on time and ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  ? Of data rearranged?” another OperaBot asks. “How can I ... chandelier, in all of its hypar glory, which I had for many years passed by in the Media Lab and wondered exactly how it would be integrated into the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this initiated me into the 9 to 5 world, something I thought would be easy. At the ... ? Shorts or pants? 1hr 1.5hrs 2hrs Cereal or parfait? Should I buy lunch

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  other outdoor festival. If you are in or around Seattle, I would recommend ... fall, I would recommend Head of the Charles if you are in or around ... You Wait Eggs, especially fried in (lots of) butter. Unfortunately, I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  lived in SF for over a decade, you'd think that by now I would have found ... they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... TikTok in 2025 delivers more dopamine than we would experience in an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025