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• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  I love the weather today. I rode my bike home through puddles and gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and ... my backpack and raincoat, looked out the window, and exclaimed joyfully

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your old posters and cut them out and arrange them in some pattern and just ... his scrambled eggs and talking in some silly accent and they both began

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  's life. While typically I sleep early, avoid daily runs, and don't take ... super-late, diligently going running, and swiping free food and giveaways ... Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  over the last week reading blogs, blogs, and more blogs. No exaggeration ... , I am reminded of both the breadth and the depth of MIT students and of ... not only education, but life right - and you should be really proud of

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  in the summer before my junior year, and I was deeply affected when I ... , to seek an answer, and more importantly to do something about it. I ... first trip in India and he handed me Jeffrey Sachs' book The End of

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  I'm going to do things backwards today, and start with... Responses ... might be and when I didn't see a "did you mean..." message, I assumed it ... , once I read your comment I googled it again, and now that entry I wrote

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  over and die. your grief at being neither splits you open. sometimes you ... thousand little losses, day after day. you idealize everything and you build up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  Applying to things doesn't end after you come to MIT, and waiting ... into MIT, and that might suck, because waiting sucks. Everybody is ... Thanksgiving, and waiting for the weekend, and waiting for spring to come so that

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to ... : denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But that’s not quite ... , confusing everyone, making weird sounds, and refusing to be consoled until it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  colors of fall leaves mixed in with the unique and historic buildings across both our campus and Boston create a beautiful canvas and culture that I've come to fall in love with.  And recently, I've been trying to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my paper covered in layers of faded pencil marks as I erased and redrew, erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a ... traveled to Chengdu, China, and eventually more and more cities, I got to see ... and passing Charles/MGH, watching the MIT sailboats glide on the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and ... ,075 applications, and is far and away the most applications we have ever received

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... Latino-centric organizations and clubs at MIT, with the Latino Cultural Center acting as the central hub for Latino students and student

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... poker?" and "did MIT students really create a working hoverboard?" Other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness ... using them for therapy and squishing them or putting them in funny places ... finals week.  My hall has a lot of really awesome traditions, and the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  . When there are clouds, the sun fills the space around them and splotches ... the man across from me. He has a beard like Edward Abbey's and a red-and-blue forearm tattoo; he's wearing a straw hat and drinking Coke from a glass

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  .013 (Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design, for those not yet versed ... sounds like. We are given a general prompt and sent on our way: Savannah climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  each other and first semester was all about finding the right balance ... more bearable by finding people to work with and understanding what organizational method works for you. Oh, and did I mention it's also about having

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever ... FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011