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  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 / 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
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  This year, the illustrious EA decision blog has been passed to me! My blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even ... information in the near future. Okay! Those are the essentials. Try to take a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  us finished their drink. definitely wasn't me[/caption] ventis, no ... . nearly every store on the street was open (with proper safety regulations

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of happiness this weekend :) My floor's annual party, DTYD (Dance 'Til You Drop ... built a giant orange plane right near the Great Dome. Given, the actual

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  fit for me and I had an amazing experience, even though I didn't expect ... you achieve your dreams, whether from near or afar. Regardless what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  ; 2013 - as a Prefrosh Me in the gray blazer, second row.   2014 ... evidenced by this blog post and my near perfect attendance, I highly recommend

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  near here!       somewhere between athens and delphi ... ;   me_irl.jpg       the great wall of nauplion

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday, i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of ... make that up the next morning at 8 a.m. i hadn't studied nearly enough

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . A lightning poll of the six people near me right now indicates that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  found a great community of folks who always manage to make me smile ... . While they don't meet nearly as often as DipSoc the all day Lan parties

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Action admits last month. Nearly all of them survived! So now we're ready ... , you may click here. A few pre-emptive FAQs: MTG isn't loading for me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  inventoried all of this swag, which had formerly been occupying nearly 70% of ... never occurred to me that it’s run by real people! People who may have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  . Now I’m just thinking how in the world the SAT – which has nearly 200 ... thorough ideas to just come to me. But thankfully, one Sunday morning, I just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010