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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... Representative at the station. I buy another one-day pass. CJ: Press F for Alan ... Square, where our next run begins. CJ: I remember we were sitting in a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... which I attended in 2018 and was a counselor for in 2019. Along with a ... part of this feeling comes from the fact that I have a less student

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  had just lost a game of Pac-Man. For a fleeting second, it was all I ... world, to do things with purpose, and I’ll never learn that from doing a ... could be exchanged for a backpack; a thousand dollars’ worth meant Air

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  't from a song lyric, but I must credit "hcs" for getting the last one ... any true talent for them... I'm a "peasant" of a student, not a "poet ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably include a train reference every time I write an entry from a train. I will ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... for robotics, and then I picked 2A-Robotics (lol). Sophomore year I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a ... eight hours, and while that's not a great plan for every day, it can be ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  knowledge of knots is not for naught. I can knot understand how anyone could ... morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... play. Play a tournament for bragging rights, or make a fool of yourself

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft things as they come to me. :P I graduated with a 4.7 GPA from MIT, or 3 ... six for one. I think I am somewhat different from the "standard" MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  freaking amazing y'all and I really couldn't ask for a better place to be ... I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  Muji and get a fresh notebook just so I can fill it with more writing ... missing high school an inordinate amount lately. I come from a very small ... for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  enough to cover a Dunkin’ run, but I can get seats to a baseball game for ... a sort of home, too. For me that’s the Mock Trial Team. I have ... away. That made for a four hour round trip any time I wanted to go to a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this ... from Sea Creatures, by Susanna Daniel, a book I'd gotten from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... had to refer a lot to the private tumblr blog I kept where I vented ... assignment. There was a point where I really didn’t know how to fix what was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  ) "I felt that I grew a lot from the adversity present in this situation ... a picture for your audience. Personally, I liked telling stories in ... complete your application (although I was guilty of that for one essay). A

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  (there’s a historical reason for this!), but I would never forego the ... . That’s why I’m adding it as a separate factor from convenience. A friend ... cost of living (though you can purchase a meal plan while living in any

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  underwater for all of eternity, and shot back up, breathing like I’d just run a ... gliding, and I got to the halfway point, where the walls were too far for ... can swim? Well if you shoved me into a deep pool, I’d probably drown on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• 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…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... believe that your dream can become a reality. I don’t know what Zahir ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... stitch using a kit from Barnes and Noble. Nine years later and I’m still ... with me. I created patterns for a host of South Park characters and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  education from MIT is like…”. I sent a survey to an East Campus mailing list ... , and I can believe that. —EP '19 running a marathon, but it's 100 ... Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020