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• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  never a large number due to the fact that I moved quite often so, I never ... the exact same when I came to MIT. I would have a good amount of friends ... New House, and you walk up to it like oh this seems like a nice building

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... words to give shape to this looming story, it persisted like a large ... substance that MIT once did--a height to be contemplated and admired, never

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I ... or even some larger liberal-arts type schools, it helped to know that a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  the MIT Class of 2012 will treat you to a rousing litany of Academic ... the issue: If you're a freshman here, you are most likely accustomed to ... then you come to MIT, where relativity is not just a theory but a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... framing this post in the form of a Letter To My Past Self. If 2016 Abby

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it ... tackled. I think it’s a nice book to read and relax while sitting by the ... English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... taking a day off and going to one of Boston’s many concerts, or even ... ’s a lot to relieve. There is something so calming about drowning out all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and ... steakhouse (after the wedding) - Learned to play a card game called Hands & ... with my sister while on a walk, which is to say that the tornado touched

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... to condense three years worth of research into a 10-12 minute talk ... recommendation that you don't want to do a little presentation? I said sure. And

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I ... friendship would be a bit toxic and codependent <3 Needless to say, she’s my ... him to arrive. He breaks down on a regular basis, much like MIT students

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  than intended before coming back to campus, I forget that there’s a world ... is a college campus where events and famous people will often come to ... out to New Hampshire to do this? Wouldn’t it have been a lot warmer and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As ... Facebook feed to find a ring that can replace my CharlieCard, an RFID ... 're RFID-enabled rings that you can use to pretty much punch your way into a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some ... : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  class. Lead a life someone would want to remember. No matter what anyone ... This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a grain of salt/pepper/Adobo and a pinch of parsley. Don’t ask questions ... . Don’t go to office hours; you don’t want the TAs to put a name to a face

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to ... -high atrium to its bamboo forest to its bold colors to its people. This is Building 46, home to all that is Course 9: Brain/Cognitive Sciences. Which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that ... 't quite come to accept it, so I felt horrible. He cheered me up a little ... that was how it should be, and I wasn't sure how to make a decision to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  treating New Year's Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to ... even year-to-year, but instead every four years. That a year ago will ... 's lives to feel like there are a million possibilities, and I feel like I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... procrastination. I take a moment to pull myself together before slipping into a ... . I still feel like when I wake up tomorrow morning to start a new day

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  friends and I made our way down to the Revere Beach (a short 15-20 minute ... of the ocean. The wind had a refreshing coolness to it, and as we sat ... quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019