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  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since what seems like forever. I know what that feels like. When regular action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  in with such high expectations that I was sorely disappointed when I ... If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  almost an hour afterwards. Once the talk ended I met a bunch of the ... I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... partially because I just ate so much BBQ I'm worried I might actually pass out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  End a little bit. We found a milliner's store and tried on some hats: I ... I had hoped. Partly because I ended up taking a 2.5 hour nap. On ... Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I ... accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager trying to develop a style. I’d had other bedrooms, before then, like when I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan ... crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense everything note-worthy into four major points: 1. Goodbyes are hard! I had

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no ... in 2022. Everyone told me to join Stripe, but I picked EFF in the end

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  back row and settled in. I saw people wearing matching bucket hats ... about, going back decades. My friend Sarah Z. '24 is on RingComm, a ... Premiere and Ring Delivery, so of course I had to show up to Premiere and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  (Keep asking questions! I'll answer them next entry.) 9:30 AM: Woke ... miracle cure for back pain. Decide to go swimming. 9:58 AM: Made it to Z ... . Shower time! Showers at Z-Center much nicer than at Next House. Note to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  are planning to cover their own dorms within the next z days!), I am ... TechCash. By which I mean your parents can pay for it. MacGregor also ... by letter -- A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and J -- and there's no I Entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  weeks at the end of the school year to see my family, and then I went down ... company? Do I want a life where I'm wearing many hats at somewhere early ... I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  when I was an undergrad :-) Monday Check out the Long Island High ... I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend coming up in April (sign up now)! Since I know you just can’t wait to meet

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  , notice: First and foremost, my super-fabulous high-heeled rainboots. I ... lobby 10 and donated today. My hat, which I only wore today because I ... the raindrops on the hat looked like glitter (see how I just tied like 3

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  hill at the Killarney end of the Gap of Dunlow, which I might try for ... bald man with an accent so thick I could scarcely understand it at times ... the pond. Be careful, the man warned me. Then I left the bus and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a ... deep. (Yes, I do know that Chris Vu passed the first round of auditions for American Idol 2, but I don't think he got to appear on television as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  not know. This man ('s hat) is quite popular among garlic paparazzi ... fries. I feel really bad for the stands that were *selling* garlic ... for free. The happiest (and stinkiest) I've been in years. Eating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  Differential Equations class in high school (thanks Mr. Godshall). Dass ein Ende ... , Rhode Island, fractals, Duran Duran, and the universe in general. reg: i always thought rhode island was an island.. guess i lack USA geography

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  was just yesterday. And now I've got one-eighth of the way left. Man I ... conceptions. No, really. So I was just sitting here this evening (don't you ... and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006