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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  . I know, it's a bold move for an inexperienced blogger like me, but ... they wanted to go to this with me and they were all "Who's Bruce Campbell ... was upset, but probably not as much as the people in line behind me, who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  Schiappa is a great professor and he's honestly helped me through so many ... pushed me toward 21E in the first place and to taking media studies more ... notes doc in my phone to write them down in case they came to me. (I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... -like reflexes to snooze it. Multiple times. The only things that stand between me ... , cheese plates, assorted desserts, and of course, champagne greets me as I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction ... , even though in the present day Hanja is nearly obsolete and not readily ... Japanese has already been very rewarding for me. There are as many

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  intended midpoint, and see my friend Kamoya approaching me, in a ... UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several ... me into the oft-called "real world". Except it's less weird when I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  . Here's the crew (Jennifer, Queen Victoria III, Raphael, Me): And more ... fiddled more with the car and examined the park map. Me and Queen Victoria ... finding instead a Civil War historical trail, which took me over a lovely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this ... -about-things-that-aren't-useful” box. She approved my decision, signed off, and sent me to the student ... services office sent me to the Physics department headquarters. The Physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  . However, our awesome Next House wing reps Gabe '11 and Sam '09 forced me to ... ! Clockwise from left: Me, Brandi, Nan, Geza (all '12), Denys and Jet '11, Sam ... : $75. This camera has served me faithfully and it's been all over the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  always felt near-impossible for me to put forth. This goes beyond academics: junior year was so great for me in part because it was the first ... with the structure of a UROP, here’s how it’s typically gone for me. You

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  Call Me Yankee, that I was spending my summer in Houston, Texas working ... that they chose me – the inexperienced and very young intern – to travel ... next to me was cheering, the kid next to Eric was crying.) The Tuesday

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  beneath me dropped. My feet plummeted, crushed against underground stone ... consolation gift she had promised me. You probably think falling into a gutter ... calculating wariness on me, but I faithfully subscribe to my involuntary

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  conversation less...usual. Person: Hey, what's your name? Me: Hi, I'm Vincent. Person: Where are you from? Me: Nigeria! Person: Where's that? Me: Africa ... and “Person” jumps up in excitement, chiming, “Alright, let me introduce

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  I nearly missed my flight. My mom picked me up from SFO and the first ... seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the ... to end so soon. Underclassmen me couldn't wait to get to graduate. Some

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  experience—namely, nearly drowning after being shoved into a pool in grade nine ... me, I had a general sense, and I was…well, excited. This excitement carried me through the first few weeks of the semester. Then things changed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  picture of me taken on June 22, 2009 at the top of Echo Mountain near ... week when my supervisor at the Oakland clinic I worked at introduced me ... . But thank you if you sent me something! Honorable Mention From Ryan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  was targeted at me. Then, Petey had to message me directly to comfort me ... those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in ... me from..." or "I was known for...", but I'll fight through it for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  be there to catch me if I’m anything less than conventionally successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some ... , and sometimes it helps me get to cool places that I didn’t really know

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  what I spend on has helped me get more value from the things I have. Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be more generous. And knowing gives me a lifestyle to work towards, one full

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  but it still puts me at 60 credits, breaking the 57 freshmen credit cap ... ; Often (and my roommates have heard me use this analogy countless times), I ... physics in a manner that was "exciting," or so to speak. To me, physics is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  very confused, told me I wasn’t supposed to have been able to reserve ... for me (even as I did not not consistently show up to, well, anything ... me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025