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  to now and forever

  

  , nearly four years later, for me to forgive him for it. It was the first ... , come visit me. They're probably the closest people I had to best friends ... school, I felt like Kenneth took care of me and really looked after me. We

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  that Prof. McGreevy has a grudge against me, but I was nearly bludgeoned ... commercialism; namely, Valentine's Day celebrations. 2. Nobody at MIT hates me ... sending me a Valentine. In no particular order: 1.John Curtice I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge ... thoroughly embarrass me involves walking in while I'm talking to myself about ... American Southwest. I was born four years later near the Arizona

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with ... . I found out later that my mom, after waiting half an hour for me to ... for a few seconds, as if to convince me it was real, and not a spark of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... label, only wee freshman me had wished it were otherwise. He was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  morning, I printed out ten or so resumes to bring to the fair with me ... experience and near empty resume. I spent the night emailing the companies I ... chemical engineering company that had replied to me that wanted a follow up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  -track during Independent Activities Period (IAP) and nearly NR-ed (no ... me! I was left scrambling at the last minute to try and get into a ... darting from office door to office door trying to get someone to make me a

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ... that shrouds me—am i doing the right by trading new endeavors and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone ... my Thursdays are nowhere near as stressful as they might have been one year prior. If you were like me last year, I understand. I get that it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... ?” Me: Nope! Too hosed. BPAFOSIPIDC (frowning): I'm afraid I have to ask if you have any other identification. Me: Nope! Should I go back to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  . Pictures may show up if Jeff '10 is nice enough to let me use them. (Please ... without arrows." Arrows scare me. Dancing should not involve arrows! It just ... 's Housing Adjustment Lottery gave me the chance to move in there. There

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  with nearly everyone I know, actually. They announced me that way at one ... seven. (Kellas '10 from England, who lives a floor above me, says this makes me half an international student. I don't agree. Yet.) Notice the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch near campus, and we talked about the past three years (after working

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  of absurdly loud car engines will sometimes startle me when I ... presume to call it anything near mature, but it is reminiscent of what I am ... would be smart, or funny, or less shy, or pretty. I’m nearly 20, and I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

   the 1991 pinatubo eruption, and they would tell us stories. no one lived near enough to have been through the worst, but it was near enough that they ... worksessions on wednesday nights. a friend visited me on thursday night, and we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  me and said: hey, why don't you come back next year and teach a class? Wait, I thought. You mean I get to come back to camp, and you'll pay me ... , good sort of way. See, when I started attending TDI, nearly all of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  commonplace, and I remember that my mom would whisk me off to the doctor for ... kind doctor gave me two ginger ales and chatted with me for about half an hour, then sent me home. i stopped vomiting that night.) Then I come to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  everybody mad at me. If, while reading this, you find yourself a) Upset b ... -mail Matt McGann and complain I urge you instead to just e-mail me at snively ... nearly every freshmen male participates in Rush. This is totally expected

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  have in the near future, and drew me to want to research the concepts ... the first time as we were driving was actually a shock to me. Once we ... check our stuff in so me and a group of others made a lunch trip to Chick

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  that good. Californians constantly tell me that it is, but I have been to ... ), our alumni interviwers. Afterward, I headed back to my hotel near ... checked in at my hotel near the airport, went for a run along the Liberty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014