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  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Halloween just weirds me out, man. Seriously. Yikes. Speaking of weird ... here just to answer some questions that have been posed to me over the ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  farms we have near our house are sheep farms. But whatever. Cow poaching ... cheerleading practice with me -- she was a cheerleader in high school, so coming to practice with me makes her happy. (Aside: My mom was a cheerleader

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  employee at Coldstone calling me brave when I asked to try it. I should've noticed something was wrong when the ice cream pan was still nearly full. I ... actually pretty tasty, but the Wasabi-Ginger, to me just was overboard. Keep

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel ... of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I ... the Last Dance For Me. I must say that I do like the crooners. (Michael

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  30-minute meals. People always tell me that I have no reason for ... apply was: "Where is Massachusetts? Near Los Angeles?" Obviously, I had to ... is that my family will miss me, and I, as well, miss my country, its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’s only green surrounding me. Afternoon sunshine smudges foliage yellow ... spams me with a dozen suggestions, including dat mountain of tech ... to convince me to settle down instead of pursuing a career. “I have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  a college campus (and at my alma mater no less) exposes me to random overheard snippets of conversation between students that remind me of past ... ) made me relive the times i grinded through those tedious psets with my

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  -sets weighing on me or exams looming in the near future. [caption id ... , then it must be for me as well? Do I truly believe what I tell everyone who asks me why I chose CS, that it forms a good foundation for me in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  out on the opportunity. However, Bea has given me a chance to guest blog ... admissions. In total we have nearly 200 Quest Scholars on campus and about 30 ... people that have defined my MIT experience. Ask me about a class and the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  . The screaming kind’s pretty cool.” Last week brought me to Copenhell ... , we got in. Nearly everyone was dressed in black; the most color you saw ... listened to — and not just Pink Floyd, either — that actually fit me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... your hardest year.” She told me this five years ago, back in 11th grade ... that each person has their own limits, but part of me always protests

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  that originally led me to consider taking leave was the way ... would have made the last few months a lot better for me. More specifically ... nearly six months in a household I had long since outgrown. The next few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... Model S reservation for a red 85D.  As a thank you they let me walk out of ... ,500."  This struck me as really really unfair considering I had no financial

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  "]eduroam[/annotation] is giving me one bar. It actually loads search results and sends email ... . This was the right decision -- the fellow who picked me up was from a ... charged me at the top of the Gap, when there was still wifi, and when at the

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

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... much about myself, the world around me, and others throughout those past ... semester has left me somewhat stupefied, like a rollercoaster suddenly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  . Weeks of back-to-back midterms and psets didn't make me nearly as ... 10 new cases a day. To me, COVID-19 still felt like a far-off threat ... makes me part of the general campus community. I don't get every email

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... before, but they're now compiled into one entry. Me at Clayton '08's ... . Me in fierce boffer combat with Dan '08 on the Random Hall roofdeck

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  : open thread. Ask me anything. About admissions or anything else. Unless

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  a true connection to "Take Me Home, Country Roads" Kayode D. ’27 of ... posts — coming soon to an admissions website near you!! To everybody who

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  meaningful to me, and not only unnecessary, but also undesired.   I also ... big decisions nears.

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023