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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  about my growing interest in politics, and he told me about his decision ... some good for the city he had grown up in and around. He asked me about my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  " question - about dance! ^.^), but after nearly four hours of gallivanting ... prodigies, but what really struck me was how everyone seemed so genuinely nice ... an ungodly hour for me to still be awake. When I have three tests in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  interesting to me. I mean, I want to spend my life designing corn shellers for ... me, and I really don't think that sending an addendum to my application ... 's sort of like when Columbia accepted me but I was already so psyched about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  extreme discomfort kept me awake until around 6 AM. Actually, the assignment ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... -Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, wanted me to get a bunch of stuff done over the next term, but I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  may see me zooming around campus on my white razor a6 scooter ... .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... scooters. The transportation devices that made second-grade me think

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  near me at the judging table, where she held forth, confidently and ... why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I ... Astronautics. Andy finished near the top of all three categories at the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to ... . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  encouraged me to work on projects that interested me, even if they were ... an enriching time for me, and I learned more about what kinds of things ... the time in between made me realize that my regular order was genuinely

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  like the best option for me. Prospective students, I hope this post gives ... protein? I get that, but hear me out. In order to avoid devastating climate ... ? Greeenhouse Gas Emissions: Livestock estimated to produce nearly 51%(!) of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... ’t seen her in nearly nine months, so I was shaking with all the excitement ... me to hasten and complete their worlds. Except that each snippet of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  picture. Instead, I found a nearly one year old video that I accidentally ... myself the embarrassment, I won't be posting that here, but it reminded me ... me for taking pointless online quizzes, but I love taking them. I don

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me ... nice as Saturne, but still pretty nice--made me a proposition: "if you play me a song, I give you free coffee." Anyway, the first thing that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  previous two things)! The other bloggers were kind enough to let me make ... than the next highest person (me). And it looks like even though Emiko ... streak for Taylor Swift! Veronica also makes a surprise appearance near the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... . So what's been up with me? I passed my finals, and I can even tell all ... a source of great excitement for Hanna '10, who lives near Evanston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  ??? Profit Foolproof if you ask me. The Learner's Permit Unfortunately ... driver’s manual because none of those laws apply to me anymore so I assumed ... , so it was too late for me to do the road test and get the proper

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  a word about CPW! Allow me to begin with an anecdote: Four months ... 'd been working on. The end result of the skit caught me completely off ... Swift - You Belong with Me solo, I thought "Whoa! I know that guy!" (Also

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of ... socially. My mom, knowing how difficult school was for me, started promising me and motivating me with concerts to keep me going and keep me, for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  If you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or (god forbid) LinkedIn, you might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an ... actually went. Me: “A good rule of thumb [in choosing jobs that will not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I ... laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... ; ...and then someone asked me out, I liked to think that I had done a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... academics, and midterms haven't even hit me yet...things are rough. I'm taking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020