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• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  ask, Oh, do you play hockey?" From there it was natural that I would ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  covered in grass. There is such abundance of life here, where everything is ... the common room, where the radiator is off. The German woman rooming ... a river — that was magical. I texted some friends about how hiking is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  . one of these we sometimes call the phrasing game: where you choose a ... "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... structures her room”, you could say that i’m a very sentimental person who

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  ?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of ... ; this is a case where I can take whichever classes I want and see what ... other option.  My cousin is studying to be a lawyer. There are other ways

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  young person reading these words, you can believe, as I did, that this is a place -- and there are many such places -- where this can happen to ... the same. MIT has been a place where I felt more like I belonged than I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  little brave to post this on a public platform where any of them can read ... 's relationship where everything is incredibly positive. Emma says the same thing ... , accountable way. This is a good thing to do."]discussing all the things we didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  (I know where that is! yay Google maps.) and will likely be in for a ... Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Weekend, but you're wrong. CPW really means "4 days of Pure a ... : There is only one picture on this post. I usually only read blogs if they ... , and exhausting. I can't wait until fall. Ramya out. --- Like what you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  generally have a README.txt file so you can understand a bit of what is going ... self-reflection in a way. There’s obviously classes you have to take to graduate, but a lot of your interests can be reflected in the classes you

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  up stuck in a place much worse than where you started. you can get all ... there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... chaotic, chaotic to the point that sometimes you can’t push a cart down the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  themes appear in some way here. We know you lead a busy life, full of ... think my thought process with this was "how absurd/unusual of a topic can ... experimentation without… accidents. Sometimes, there aren’t bananas for a strawberry

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  , "Terrascope is a learning community with curricula designed to give you the ... the teacher just said, you can just ask right there and then. 7. Dave Custer's Lab where one can bake a cake by running a current through batter

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  . You pick where to apply, schools pick their admitted students, and then you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  Association has a search engine on its site that lets you search by year, major ... purpose of this is to help you "network" with alums and find jobs at their ... advice you can get from alums in your major who have gone into different

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  anywhere. And I think there's a certain kind of satisfaction you can get from ... . Sleep Cycle has an option where I can randomize my alarm, which is nice ... . This isn't the kind of thing you can fix in a single day. So if you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  another, which had a backyard near some train tracks, where I’d been once ... , where I met new people who were at most one connection away, a friend of a ... of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no ... awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of ... ended up lasting us over a week!  There were potatoes and salads and green

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  Do you ever feel like you can't do just one thing at a time? These days, I can't watch TV (a real TV) without internet on my lap. I can ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  have felt that way at times, like there is a horror trying to claw its way out of your stomach, and there’s nothing you can do about it, and ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of, “What!? You can live without a stomach?!” The short answer is yes ... will now have a pretty normal life expectancy. There is so much to do ... brings me the most happiness is Camp Kesem MIT. Those of you who have stuck

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012