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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  people who use the expression "what are the chances" in casual conversation ... people, I'm surrounded by MIT people. This is a good thing for many, many ... that one in. So the answer is something close to 1/370.86 * 1/12ish

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  narratives. The class is 20 people, mostly seniors, who are quite ... did from the readings themselves. After discussion is over, we have a ... restaurants around the BBC. There are a wide variety of cuisines in every

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  because their mascot is a penguin). Maybe people who like penguins just ... friends, August, is a Gemini, and the similarities clicked in my brain ... observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  Short Story from Last Summer

  

  that perception is a two-pronged process: there is the "taking in ... It is June of last year. I am interning at a medical devices company in Seaport and living near Kenmore Station, so my daily commute is

  • by Sara N. '28
  • June 11, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... of my own. A lot of it is standard stuff, stuff that you'll hear all the time and see printed in a bunch of books, but there are two bits of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  manager is in charge of dorm maintanence.) He told us the fridge was working ... student RA, basically, for those of you unfamiliar with the term) is a really active member of MITOC- the MIT Outing Club, which owns a cabin in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  exist as a digital copy in some stranger’s pocket. I can’t tell if this is ... that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... appropriately for the holiday. A 15 minute delay in the meeting time allowed for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 'm pretty excited about all of those places. Should be a great trip. While I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  photojournalized. In conclusion, because she is both associated with MIT and a ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can balance out my weaknesses. That is, you need to be able to: 1. Drive like a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  . As the one Course 2 (mechanical engineer) who ended up in a company ... Science and Technology Initiatives) is the umbrella organization for a lot ... provide support to students who wanted to study or work abroad in Japan

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  r s t on so far in our entire time here. Besides being a punch in the ... exam. See how we do. And based on that, make a decision on whether we ... badly as I did on the second exam, I’d know that I’d be in a position

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  with my free time. i hadn't done anything creative in ages, and i never ... hell as well—i locked myself in my room for a whole week to study. masha talks about how overwhelming MIT is in this post, and i very much agree

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  think the best way to combat these moments is surrounding yourself in a ... vulnerable in times of hardship and difficulty. Which I think is a very, very ... thing I've ever encountered in my life and the work and content is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  everyone else sings Sunday and at least one other day. A good choir is a ... all the pretense of being a real Trinity student and sat down in one of ... cantor, all dressed in long robes. They sing a lot of the same texts every

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... the day, then spent my free hour on a hallway bench, then continued on ... seminar, or while knitting in a library study space, or just in my room

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  MIT with just a suitcase, a duffel bag, and a backpack. To the left is a ... climbed on a given day. The giant bar in the back? That’s the day my family ... . At the time, I was temporarily housed in a room on the fourth floor, in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  see the days fly by without progress. No one day is a killer, but in ... MEng is designed to be a three-semester program, and I'm one term in, and ... . I had signed up because I was a silly little frosh who was signing up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  have a positive impression of) everyone in the room 7pm: you get free ... pm: you go to a cafe with K, a friend of a friend who asked to hang out ... emotions this strongly in a single day. the whiplash from all the starts and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022