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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Ethiopian scarves that I have. Mostly, I’ve just learned how to carry home in ... you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  what I wanted to do. I felt like it would allow me to doing something in ... anything I would want to do in the public sector would be related to public ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  said in one of my comments in the last thread, I wish people would stop ... I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in ... prepared for the haters, but I let it go. No matter how good and honest one

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  Hi everyone. I'm writing this entry from NYC, where I have Internet access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  back at how much my life has changed in just twelve months. It has, by ... , I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television, sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  would change if I didn't get in. I certainly wouldn't think less of ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  in hopes that I would be better by Monday, but when that didn’t happen, I visited Student Support Services (S3) to meet with a dean who would ... to my 21A.01 “How Culture Works” professor explaining that I would have

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  't know if I would get in or not) and I applied to some places where I was ... about what would make me happiest in a college experience, I made good ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  classmates out when they were being sexist in my group project. I learnt how to ... sometimes, I would show up at her room and cry about how tired I was, how ... deserved to walk those hallowed halls of MIT. I would NOT have made it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  how long before a Naruto reference would show up. But yea, I asked Alexa ... 's how i knew what her and I had was real. Ameer: Andre 3000 I would say is ... " anymore? In an effort to figure that out I wanted to have a conversation

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  why she would need to come to school in these last couple of weeks." I ... school. Funny how things change. In the end, I ultimately chose not to go ... intentions. I never thought a girl like me would end up at MIT, let alone in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  people I would never meet. I am more emotionally invested in the members of ... I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  me, then I would be okay. And it worked, for a little. I was in ... loved the running water. I loved how I could sit in here, sit in all of ... describe the fear i feel. i remember how hard it was being alone in my senior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  it out! I won't make any money if you do; in fact, the Amazon S3 bucket ... IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... activities go, I'm usually only concerned with some subset of these activities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... circadian rhythm out of whack. A few months ago, I was easily putting in ... ] Showing my age I used the slang word "slay" in a conversation the other day

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to study with. I've had some interest in genetics since I was a kid. The one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  'm Vietnamese, would you tell me about how to get a scholarship from MIT?" Hi Nam, I will admit that I'm not completely familiar with how international ... ' classes you attend, I'm interested in what you do between classes, any

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  make for you in Paint. Yes, dear, I do know how to use Mathematica, but I'm in lab right now and I don't have it on this computer, so I figured ... back to MIT for IAP was not the best idea that I have ever had in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... up here in Cambridge and I'm glad of it. It's easy to not know, but

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009