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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  the (perhaps illogical) assumption that the guy would let go. So, I ... events, I was deprived of my laptop for over 3 weeks. How ridiculous were ... on TVs, hard drives and iPods... what did I buy? I don't know, but I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  write some "photo journals" over IAP. Had I known this would have happened, I would have emailed him in September. Good thing I was on pass ... first couple of "entries" was hilarious. I would make Word documents with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  rather than drone on and on about how much I dislike this pseudo-prison, I ... remember how honored I was when the sassy fashion queen herself gave me her ... talk about anything and everything. I miss our GRA, Colleen, who would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... would be the point exactly? Your interview report shouldn't be just a ... project, how you helped overcome a difficulty encountered by the group, or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  their aptitude for math and science. That's how committed I am to ... DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  , so, unbeknownst to him, I'm commandeered his office, kicked out on his couch, and put my feet up on his desk. The downside, I guess, is that I ... welcoming. I've only been in here a few minutes, but already I know I could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need ... to MIT campus. I went there a few weeks ago and ended up buying a VHS ... thing I would never use.  [caption id="attachment_100305" align

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These ... .) Learn how to adult (Wait, am I actually telling you to prepare for college ... switch it to the dryer and press another button (I just taught you how to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  pack 2 was available, so i bought that too. i would buy promo pack 1 ... , puzzles, and board games, and even later i would discover that a couple ... . we ended up playing a lot more in the rest of the semester. i would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  prof?” So I did. It would be an overexaggeration to say I poured my heart and soul into explaining how much I loved drawing comics and wanted ... endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my uncle. And although I am 2,880 miles away from MIT, I still attended the ... year's commencement was great but ultimately felt distant because I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  all, they probably would be willing to teach you how to do those things ... had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this happen, I could at least buy ... funny anecdotes… There will be food, I think, and we would love to meet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... young man fresh in college would drive 17 miles each way from his ... staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Wellesley MA rest

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls ... , I would still stand out. I don't look Japanese. I have relatively ... my messenger bag is different. From how I look, how I dress, how I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  school right now, otherwise I would ask him--is this computer terminology ... School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... schools would read it. Now that I go to MIT...well...not so much. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  people have already had lab experience in high school, how on earth will I ... what kind of commitment I would be able to make. That was in the spring ... and I frequented multiple times was the SoWa Open Market. As the website

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  , my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket ... tourists. Our original mission was to buy enough fruit to make fruit salad ... from the day: I just had to take a picture of this sign. Haymarket

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

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always ... Sinhalese, and I would start imitating them and we would all laugh.” But when ... foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  the original, like how light always scatters through glass. Since I don ... . It wasn't mandatory. But then I thought about how the entire point of ... . If I used them, that would cement my position as the kid, as the one

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion ... performance. Afterwards, I explained to another group of friends, "It would be ... surrounded by magic; there was the inevitable march of time, how I could

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022