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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... , I see. Psh, stop wasting your time on that stupid game. Let me tell ... -- you'll thank me in 2016 :) So what was I going to say? Oh, you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... me anything, it’s that everything can be a verb), since there was a ... externship catalog one night, one position jumped out at me. It was with Plume

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  relationship with her father. Both emotionally wrecked me in the best of ways and made me reflect on the stories I want to tell someday. Powerful theatre ... video production or something else, is a good path for me right now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  studying for the MCAT, the next great obstacle between me and medical school ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks ... , even just for a little bit – that calms me down. Just for fun, I’ve also

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... to the discussions around me. Everyone else seemed to be teaching ... and fired question after question, corrected me with small

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  ! She comes out and treats me to a pastry and coffee because that's just ... remember how this came up, but she takes out a notebook and makes me sign an agreement that makes me promise that she'll be the one to pick out my wedding

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  million to me) and I loved them all and walked around feeling fireworks all ... couple of meltdowns. I counted on my roommates to help me chill out. I made ... prescriptions. "Tell me your problems and your life, and I'll give you a poem to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  letting me use your beautiful masterpieces! After munching on cider donuts ... around me, I have not once felt unwelcome. I’m not saying I don’t miss my ... didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.” The only condition ... who made Talking Shoe, for responding to my emails and giving me some

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  might change me), but for now, I'm going to sit here and appreciate the ... purpose is entirely unknown to me. Neither of my parents had an explanation ... me into my chair. I studied for ten minutes, made some tea, looked out

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  SO HAPPY, but there wasn't much energy in me to get overly happy as ... in a lot of pain, but she liked talking to me and I liked talking to ... school.  All day people were congratulating me, and I thought it was about

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see ... ? Of having parents who didn't disinherit me but instead sighed and said "do it if you must?" Of having had that sense of must kindled inside me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  the next bus stop. “There’s our bus.” “You’re kidding me.” “Nope.” It ... in the back row, including me and Cory. It was stuffy, hot, and too ... radiates energy and optimism. Coming home, for me, is hiking, canoeing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  Upper East Side (NY 14th). This made me finally realize what ... '11 shares almost the exact same life story as me (born in the US, grew ... , because she always links me when talking about SSP - although it was a pity

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  this: Class 1: Beat Me at Kirby's Avalanche! In high school, I used the ... Splash program gave me the money to buy a SNES console with two controllers ... . For an hour, I battled any challengers who wanted to take me on for a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  - but somehow, I've left out the classes I've taken as a freshman. Let me ... -100 students into manageable tables of 9. For me, it was a mixed bag.While I had ... MIT weighed in, my TA and several essay assignments encouraged me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  being hyperbole. So let me clear up a few misconceptions. And a totally ... some cutoff, right?! Okay. Inhale. Exhale. Let me lay down some true ... everything. Which brings me back to, you know, that human element. It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  with music, and it just amazed me. Another big milestone for me was after ... that playing music at MIT has allowed me to forge some of my strongest ... long as I have a piano to practice on, and people willing to listen to me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  connected in a moment. But first, let me explain...FIRST. FIRST (which stands ... excited. Trust me, you haven't seen excited until you've seen 6,000 students ... date on this song makes me more than a little nostalgic. I did a lot in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I ... the other hand, if you'd asked me how I felt about feeling like negative ... my answers if you paid me 20 bucks for taking your survey*. *Fantastic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009