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  What have I been doing this break?

  

  most days - occasionally two meals and/or no dessert - but when I'm in ... ) - Reread lots of books that I haven't read in a long time - Attended my dad ... team once I get back in town and IAP starts - Visit my old high school

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• 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 treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in Sinhalese, and I would start imitating them and we would all laugh.” But when

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to ... learn about how some stylistic choice in films (choosing what dialogue to ... popular tropes in horror films, early horror genre movies would often

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... , and say: "Hey Flourish! I'm Chris. I work over in admissions. A decade ago we worked on FictionAlley together. I was in the group that fled Fan

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just to see how high I could get the stack. I also have sensitive hands - I ... sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to ... interesting story behind how I got interested in this and what I have been doing ... including in the Optional section? ( I hope you would rate it better than just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  latter, let's just say that I knew it would be successful from the ... kidding, dogs are my favorite animals in the world and this would be a ... final was to compete in a Top Gun shooting competition. ...I didn't win

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  people. I'd talked with Ellen about being women in STEM, and how we'd found ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  not send in that extra recommendation. Instead, I would put the relevant ... MIT. How much need I shorten these essays?" In a previous entry, I ... this hinder or aid my application in any way? And where would I mention

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  . How could I be a senior when I had never even been a junior? I was very ... less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I ... -breathing startup, whereas I'm still thinking in a more theoretical realm... I love

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  idea what people do in most majors (and where I would fit in), and a ... extroverted, I hope we can get along. Boy, did I underestimate how well we would ... proof based mechanics class. Each week, I would spend 5 hours in class and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... against a window. I predicted with my students when decisions would be

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  students I met would expound on how much smarter they felt then the rest of ... still have no idea how integrating factors work!" or "I better get a good grade, because I spent 100 hours on this project." or "I slept in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  for the next 4 years? How much do I want to learn? What would I give up ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008