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• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  about being on the organizing team side of things!  During team meetings ... asked us for our roses, thorns, and buds of the week.  Roses and thorns ... of us interpreted it as things on the horizon, some of us interpreted

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  of the only nearby places open until 11:00 PM. This place is freakin ... one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... thought you might want it.” So I got a free cup of coffee. But the coffee

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  understand why I'm really excited for the next three years? Speaking of ... scratches the surface of some really interesting topics involving the ... the table without ever being consciously aware of doing so. -There's a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  of the history behind MIT was surprisingly interesting, mostly because famous hacks were mentioned. Hacks are the absolute best part of the culture. I must disagree with the shirt and way that there are two kinds of

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... ’m a senior, and he’s a junior. We still live in the same floor of Random ... in the optional Maker Portfolio of his admissions application). MIT was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?" essay 4:37 The "what do you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of ... The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that ... circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and ... heat so they don't overcook. I like Ramsey's technique of pushing all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk ... carry the additional unnecessary burden of having to fight to be seen

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... the event, providing each floor of the dorm with staple ingredients such ... of which falls into one of the following categories: Appletizer

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and ... jogged toward the South door of the building. Then I saw my professor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT was also one of the shortest. It went something like this -- “ ... also has the business savvy (and an impeccable sense of style to go with

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my ... some 3E lounge or other for the rest of the day. Sometimes, I go to the ... , Charles-facing windows of the lounge. I sidled up to Athena, hoping to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label ... lifestyle doesn’t take advantage of the perks of living in EC—I don’t spend a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... could choose my friends instead of spending the whole day around the same ... -judgemental.) REX was one of the best weeks of my life. I found an awesome friend

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... two major goals going into the beginning of this summer. One was to ... school and it is one of the best videos of all time. It is tangentially

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... International - like spreading LTI to Mexico), and one of the reasons I joined is ... vision. LTI seeks to introduce the concept of leadership to high school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  the sweetest! Reaching the summit of a 11k foot mountain, Mount Baldy ... most of the way and only actually hiked the last 1k or so feet of ... soon after, all before the first day of classes. Before the semester even

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... . staring into the charles from the bridge brings to memory, the six of us, in ... night of sliding down tunnels in office chairs and lying in the grass

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020