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• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  from MIT. I was burned out after last semester, and I don't know how I ... MIT experience in a new framework. I appreciate that. I'll never take ... just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a ... sunshine and roses would be lying. I've never been very good at identifying ... ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  's lab that she would in fact be leaving MIT to move to New York with her ... I ever saw in my life. You guys are the best students ever, and I will ... course, if I were to become a professor (not going to happen), I would just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3 ... , I prepared to fly back to Taiwan with an extended layover in San

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Cormick at about 11:45 pm, naively thinking that I would be in bed by 1 am at ... very same Walker Memorial in which I have endured many a painful midterm ... arrived, my joy at having gotten in was weighted down by uncertainty. Did I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  , blog, and demonstrate how my shirt says TIM in the mirror. Until ... . If you'll recall where we left off, I was in the the hotel room after ... is when I was able to shoot. I shot in the first air pistol round of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... status early), which basically means that if I do bad in the class, it won

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  class or two and still graduate, and I have a little wiggle room in how ... first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... -Emily"]Everybody, meet Alison.[/annotation] With these three in mind, I ... ended up in my spam folder bc I guess my email decided that it doesn

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  or test-prep courses I would suggest or anything like that. I recommend ... gained from it, how it has changed you, etc. Another piece of advice I ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a ... : well, maybe you didn't hear it here first. I would have gotten away with ... Well, you heard it here first. The letters are in the mail. For the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a ... brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... zillions of essays. Over and over again. I literally wrote something in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in ... , there was a place where I could finally breathe. A page in my notes app

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Contest. In light of my camera's unusual bout of laziness over CPW, I ... becomes rich on Flickr**. **In all seriousness, I will give you full credit for your photos***. ***Let's see how many asterisked-footnotes I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  are your parent's concerns? If it would be helpful, I can have Nance ... be so detailed and exhausting that I won't have time to partake in all ... deliberation not to do something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  't know how I had time to bake brownies, but I fit in somehow! They were oh ... , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf ... Tucson native inhabitant; the rattlesnake. There I am in the middle of my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... disconcerting in its unfamiliarity. Upon closer introspection, I concluded, with ... I didn’t know how to feel about it. I think I never truly realized

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014