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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my ... part of the fear comes from knowing that regardless of how hard I try, I ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... piebald on the radio yesterday Diana: yup...i saw their new cd at best buy

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  't seen the movie yet, but I would find it hard to believe that the ... desk, futon, and handmade loft. "Basically, I had a huge space in my room, so I went to the Porter Room [a big room in Burton Conner with broken

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  really excited, and decided to apply. Here's how it works: I went to http ... saying that Telefonica was interested in hiring me! I set up a Skype ... 're interested to know what I'm actually doing here? I'm working in the Networked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  scary? So what! Live a little, get over here (I live in EC, and I don ... would never have met otherwise during my freshman year. I think my phone ... . That $20 in tech cash they give you? Use it right away for non-food (buy

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... about how they would handle the fall, I decided to seriously consider taking leave. I realized that taking leave would allow me to feel in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by ... . Regardless of his intention, when I read that passage I saw this in my mind ... conference) and I was visiting the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  . In retrospect, this might just have been because I didn't know how to ... , in my pace, and how I felt during and afterwards. This is what I ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  reenactor like that one episode of Amazing Race 4 in Vienna. I took this ... 's last indirect free kick, so I could memorialize how close France came to ... another 2.20 ticket I saved myself from buying. On July 3rd, we had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  came back, and I wished city sounds would drown out their mating snaps ... playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to ... events. Before junior year, I spent the whole summer in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  company past the program. Exhibit D: So proud of them :') While in Peru, I ... be a tourist. It seemed like a wonderful idea at the time. How I looked ... to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plushies. Then, when I was in fourth grade, my best friend and I learned how ... plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  because how would I ever make friends in college if I didn’t meet people ... ’t possible for me. I thought I was absolutely screwed: I would never fit in at ... filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  .009 makes me (and how I can't stop thinking about it). Sorry it's been so long ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  nervous about how the semester would go. Yes, I heard it wasn't the end of ... ."]she wanted to retire.[/annotation] I would start taking notes early on in the ... to see how it goes in the future. Lastly, I watched Dororo, which I got

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... school (once my #1 choice) where I would've been miserable, had I decided

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  've said, like I would have been) in not answering the "completely optional ... process, so I feel I should remind folks that P(big envelope in December ... very informal research, etc.) because I thought it would be anticlimactic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  ... that's cheerleadery, isn't it? Jess '08 Well-- I'm in Italy studying ... (Building 37) Details: I'm working with a group that is involved in the ... jealous!). Aline '08 is doing research in Wisconsin. I think Carly '07 is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006