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• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  one foot in front of another, proving to myself that I can just keep, on ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  tries to remember my blogging username/password. So then, where have I ... a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... MIT Media Lab. You can read more in thousands of articles across the web

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  hands to pull in the rope. But you can NEVER LET GO of the rudder! So I ... Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... everyone my sailing story over and over because I can tell it to everyone

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  're definitely getting in!" just increased the pressure. With how and where I grew ... ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... products). We (my mom and I) arrived in Shanghai last night. Today (June 3rd ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  looks like that. I hadn't been to a baseball game in a while, and I ... certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog ... - Fundamentals of Ecology i.e. everything I've ever wanted in a biology class here ... before. Art is taken seriously, and I can feel my observation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• 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 ... haven't changed much at all, there are still a few things I hadn't done in ... So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  the first three terms, I treated MIT like most upperclassmen have in the ... could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2 ... after the A or B in the course; instead, I went for understanding the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... repeats. The Stirling engine cycle can also be used "in reverse", to ... stumbled upon some of their kilns in the Student Center. So, hurray, now I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  good scores. how can I report my IELTS score, as in Part 2 of the ... as you set up your interview. In general, I do think that pictures can ... question that is asked. Below, and in my other Questions Omnibus posts, I try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia ... useless trivia, then yes, you can. I go nuts over this site. [caption id ... I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa ... slightly uncomfortable again, in a new place where I didn’t know that many ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening to sad music, rolling the guilt i felt around and around in my head

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... Every Student Should Know," where reps from a consulting company in DC

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  having posted anything substantial in something like seven months. I kept ... and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  amazing mother repeated this to me almost every night as she tucked me in. I ... what, Mom?” I asked. “That the sky is the limit. That you can do anything ... night out in Tallinn, Estonia (where Hardi founded the company, and where

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work ... to as I prepared said e-mails. And, guess where those were? Yes, so, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010