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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Airport Problems, Three Years Later we all have different coping mechanisms for coming back to school

  

  landed bright and early into Boston at the prime time of 11:48pm that day ... Francisco, questioning all the decisions that led me to this point of my life ... summer I took ~10 flights, and all of them were either delayed, cancelled

  • by Janet G. '27
  • August 30, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  part of, like tech squares or the assassins guild or esp or puzzle club ... funding to throw parties at not-frats every week. i cared that east campus ... and traditions fade more with each year, with nothing new coming up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  if I managed to find balance at MIT, then the rest of my life should be ... that balance. And doing so has come at the cost of my grades which has ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  of recent papers from ACL and related groups at other institutions, and ... those papers cited. At one point, I spent a weekend in New Hampshire ... a stack of papers to read in my sleeping bag at night

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... explain because words are hard. The output is a bunch of new sequences ... research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... expression, "the cure for cancer is research" throughout the corridors at MIT, Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  admitting that online. I had a lot of doubts about my fit at MIT that year ... It's spring break here at MIT and I'm busy with thesis work. I want ... and eggs at each other the entire time. In past CPWs, East Campus (one

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the ... of the sophomore year designing the ring, which is unveiled at an event ... new lounge. While I personally was not upset by the removal of the mural

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  obliterate all memory of even the tough as rocks New England winter and life is ... beautiful," it was exactly his kind of place, too. Full of a very wholesome ... the sunset. And at night there was always something to do. Parties with

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  at with this story of yours??? Excellent question my little prefrosh I ... 'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  elections a couple of weeks ago, and I'm the new Conner 2 webmaster (or ... new stuff and forgot a lot of old stuff. I'm really looking forward to ... elimination. (I kid you not.) I made a list of all 20 some odd majors here at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... convince myself of, not for any good reason. I spent a little too much time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time ... right back at square one, even though this wasn’t really new at all. Like ... , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... desire, start a growing collection of Digimon plushies at the foot of my ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  of the two main hip hop groups at MIT"]Mocha Moves ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... held at MIT in December, so we talked about options for making classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  and easy way to expose yourself to tons of new material. 3. Tell a good ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  't know exactly what level of celebrity we were dealing with here. At 1 ... DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007