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  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  into egg salad. See, what I really wanted was an egg salad sandwich (I can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had ... find good links in huge articles. I wish I could tell you what articles

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... ). I also wanted to say a huge a welcome to the Class of 2024! This

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  "aboot". I was on a fishing trip deep in the arctic. I spent the last ... , guys, I joined a cult. I really didn't mean to; I guess that's what ... email. (Also, that's why I haven't called in a while, Mom.) Actually, to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  in, about what kind of company culture I like (hint: Google is awesome, and not just because they gave me a Chrome beanie. Although I am in love ... place. You see, I'm a freshman, and therefore my current resume consists

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  notice fashion in a way I never did before. I can tell you that in July in ... .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... again. The week before the last test, I realized I hadn't eaten in the ... end. I forgot what I was really interested in, which is honestly just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious ... at MIT. I became a blogger before I was even a student here, just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  always thought I’d end up going to a UC; in fact, up until my sophomore year in high school, I didn’t even know what MIT was. Luckily, however, I ... what this meant and I wanted a much more concrete answer than that. But

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running ... people off of a registry. And saying the word 'registry'. What I really ... haven't changed much at all, there are still a few things I hadn't done in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  really..unworthy? In a sense? I don't really have a way to fix this, but ... getting feedback from a different source. I don't know what my goals would ... . Something I've been telling myself a lot is to just try my very hardest in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  It's time for one of those "It's late and I'm up, I should throw crap on the internet so I feel accomplished" moments. Are you ready? Can you ... 've favorited since I've gotten here. "What does this have to do with MIT?" Look

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  didn’t live in a dormitory last year like the rest of the freshmen but I ... I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... I’ve spent time on campus. I haven’t missed a class reunion since I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and ... at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp ... and I have dedicated quite a bit of time and effort towards fundraising

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  -year-old in 2024. What a simple story I would tell years later. I went to Paris ... philosophers. I recognized a few of their names. In one chamber, Marie and Pierre ... . I had never been to a jazz club before—had never even really listened

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  I know well in MIT graduate programs are cheerleaders or former ... should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the ... vocabulary. 13. Discovery is the first time I fired a gun in the Pistol PE ... gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large ... family plans, but, as I noted before, having Cingular service in Boston is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... (which i will talk about in a later post) which are all fun! i am cooking ... will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  opportunities like that in your email. honestly as a 6-7 (cs & bio) i don ... coming true. in fact, way back when, i made a wish at 11:11 to become a ... in a while. We were making butternut squash soup and I was in charge of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

   made Python. (I swear, this will make sense in a few seconds.) Clearly, van ... can still check out research in Course 24-2 (a program in Language and ... project - but a good two weeks in, I found myself getting a refresher on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011