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  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  . I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they ... .  Loneliness is a type of grief, maybe. I can’t help but imagine you as little ... explain why I see you as a stranger. I’m sorry, I can’t help you. You might

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr account was actually a terrible idea. I don’t know if I can think of any

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will ... for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff. I made a new floor sign for Loop #diy A video posted by Rose ... extremely laborious but I learned a great deal from building it; plus I now

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four ... from Day 1 to attend talks and ask questions. Freshman year, I was a ... important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been ... .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat ... campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges ... streaming capabilities and can be used to project presentations from a laptop

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah...I ... wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting ... you read an entry five days later, it'll be a bit different from when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Ballroom Dancing for the last two PEs - can I be a dancing pirate? =p THINGS ... -nighter (for fun!) - for fun, or not for fun, I think I had a bit too many of ... lunches...then I took a long hiatus from them till late senior year, when I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  hope I can become a sort of liaison for that. I gave a talk earlier this ... ... ^^;) A group photo from ASA Senior night Despite how involved I was in so ... was called "Home Sweet College", where I had talked about being a scared

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... times where you think "ok, this it the last time FOR SURE", but after a ... fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  [/embed] For this project, I implemented a menu highlighting system, where the ... display it on the LCD. After asking for some help from Jay, I ended up ... , implement, and create a presentation for our final project. I teamed up with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... where I came from anymore. If there’s one major takeaway I got from high ... much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... for years. Like this one I found the other day; you can see the date ... saying "I know a spell that can beat that challenge!" Neville's broken into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  helps me remember where I came from and where I’ve been, which in my ... definitely next on the list. There is a mini-Bible from before college, but I ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  years these are from. Figure 1a: Underwear Color by Undergraduate Dorm I ... , where all my email addresses supersecretly lead. I did it a while ago ... mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016