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• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  to ride it where I like." Having a bike makes getting anywhere else in ... general questions posed recently in the comments. Mia :) -- "Hey Sam...I was ... they said that it wasn't in their department. Why can't Musical Theater

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and ... , [annotation note="Specifically, I figured out where to place my right foot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  ’t been a single time this semester where I’ve learned something in one of ... declared a double major in CMS (Comparative Media Studies) so that I can get ... some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  う一度　いつまでも - though I don't think it will show up on the URL =p] Can't believe it's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP ... the topic of Japan... This is where I'll be spending IAP this year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in ... . Nothing says epic like "ESTA - ES - SPARTAAA!") I suppose you can be ... 'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam where I lived until 8 then my family moved to sunny southern California which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I

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

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If you’d asked me even a year ago where I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  one painting, it can still work in another. I've been drawing for most ... this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago ... time I've drawn in this sketchbook. During life drawing sessions, a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  restrictions and rules of being in a sorority. I don't know how much I can talk ... future IAP I can do Spanish Incubator, where you go to Madrid and learn ... regrets of mine I try not to think about. But I hope I can put that all to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  've been up to:   UROP in Langer Lab  I've been dying to tell you guys ... RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... involves all sorts of stuff I’m interested in - wet lab, molecular biology

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can my school counselor find helpful information?

  Thank you for all of the good work you do for our awesome applicants! We understand what a daunting task it is for school counselors to meet all of the…
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  inquired "Where's your mousepad?" "Well . . I don't have one. . . but look ... in just for me! I have the best girlfriend ever. ... I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  .[/caption] Where I'm from in Camarillo, California, we have a dry season, a wet ... Two years ago in freshman year (:O so long ago), I wrote this poem. I ... to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can ... between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  ).[/annotation] She poked her head into the room, “Hiii. Can I come in?” She asked ... can even raise this concern and I enter behind him. All 4 strangers in ... hovering over the room… I’m currently reading “On Looking,” a book where

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  student, because I’m not really sure where it started and where it ends. Did ... summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  prefer revising the material on printed paper, where I can scribble all ... . I most definitely can't study in my room or anywhere close to my bed. I also can't focus if I'm studying with friends. I do message out in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  it. I haven’t been to Alewife in a while now, because I’ve been too ... ’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly ... balance in my social life, since I’m meeting new people while having more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... /early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this ... , and I do enjoy it. So, now that I'm living in my own apartment this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  MITAdmissions. If I could assign reading to prospective students like I can assign ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014