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• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50 ... and I send to all the new bloggers during blogger training: The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this ... , including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature ... to have research experience. I have about two years of experience in ... very hard in my bio classes. Be flexible with your path. Yeah, I know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  ever changing. As I learn to believe in that with all of my heart, I ... based on the circumstances of the day, I find comfort in knowing that ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . There are so many resources here that I would have to fight for if I had ... opinions; I'm just trying to plant a little seed of doubt in the minds of ... . Here's a series of photos in which I explain that: this is the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  about how much i miss MIT. i spent junior fall in a very weird state of ... reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is that i decided this would be good for me. i am taking four math classes

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  Opera here in Boston. I love the costuming, the movements, and of course ... moment one day... I got one song (probably "The Power of Love") stuck in my head, then another Huey song stuck in my head, and before I knew it, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  up going in very interesting directions. I almost wish I’d had an older ... This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday ... Math, and classes you might not expect, such as How to Plan and Execute

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  three dimensions makes it clear how one would do it in higher dimensions ... special influenced me. I told him how I wrote about it in my MIT application ... In my junior year of high school, I started taking single

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  , framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I ... ; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... want on campus at any time, and i did not realize how unusual this was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  would find my niche. Yet I had lingering worries of how it would be like ... intimidating as well. Not in the number of people. But because of how I ... knew for certain that I would be taking my math and physics GIRs in ESG

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  2014 sweatpants draped over it. They're COVERED in dirt. Last night, I ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I hang it in there, it drags on the floor. I bought and wore it on the day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking ... -motivated work). But in the times when these pressures do exist, and I am not as ... other people while I’m in the room -- that I’m always happy. And I say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020