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• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  for EA will be extended to accommodate things. Also, Grommit (where ... stereotype was one of the things that turned me off to CMU. It wasn't until a ... neighborhood where you'll find CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, is actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a ... . There were other, maybe more unusual things to: taking a train to the ... , with them was a joy to me. A little less than half the summer has gone by

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  a lot easier. I’m already a junior, and I’ve only just started to find ... would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... the time I hit 30 and picked a few to work on during 2020. What follows

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  a place -- and there are many such places -- where this can happen to ... everything I wanted to be, but everything I wished I could find around me as I ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I ... into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  ’t want to be alone, which is also often, I can always find somebody else ... Bonfire lounge was watching Mean Girls. This seems to happen a lot lately ... machine for 6.01 next to a disassembled puzzle.      One floor down is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... to take a step back and look at my choices and think, "well planned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  hard drive crashed. I'm a Mac user now. I need to find a way to acquire ... 21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn ... of an experiment of interest) here's a list of some places you can find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  on my clothes. Oops, so I ran off to find just where I'd sprung a leak ... activity happening all around you. There's seemingly a quintillion things to ... every year for a few years, I suppose it's supposed to signify the first

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  to until they find a way to redistribute the wealth, land and ... and thought to myself how I, a Texan, was going to survive another ... dangerous parts of downtown Johannesburg, where I got to see the old jail

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... couple months, I've said a lot of hopefully-temporary goodbyes to a lot of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class ... point for it. And with no baskets, holes, or lines to guide a judge in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... realizing the status of my mental state: I was super surprised to find that I ... , but it is a lot to put into words at the moment—so I have chosen to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  the few women in the field. At a vendor meeting where engineers were ... ignored her findings. Why? Because she was a woman. What did women know ... after, a teaching assistant at MIT enlisted Perlman to help him. "He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank ... soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan ... ). Look for Evan's blog to launch later this month. So where have I been

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... heritage, I find stories a lot closer to the reality I have experienced, and ... decreased significantly. But I think that I’ve still been able to retain a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say ... popped up this time. This was it! I was about to find out where I stood ... ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I ... was as good a time as any to cast off my noobishness.  I'm taking Intro to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  pick up spot where you can find a variety of abandoned technological ... even approachable, but I find it to be a fascinating reflection of ... least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023