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• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from ... 6:00 this morning I was tugging my carry-on across MIT’s campus on the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  during the summer. They might be based on your preferences, and they might ... moved from my room on the 4th floor to an area I like a little bit less on ... building are still a maximum of 2 minutes away from me. It’s a matter of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  people/cars/people-standing-on-cars suffering gratuitous physical damage ... Mechanical Engineering Pre-Orientation Program, I was shuttled off on a tour of ... sensation of a vertical nap. -One fine night, I fell asleep on a roof

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  ://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-spain/ (which just a few months ago was a much uglier website, nice job on the ... , accomodations, visas, whatever. Sometimes you're left on your own, but you can ... anything. You may not make much money, depending on the internship you get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to ... seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... Mikey's page over on the Logs site.) So, some context: Mikey received an

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  't throw diesel fuel on a fire 5) Don't invite someone to something, even if ... advised to bolster your courage and read on. Much more interestingly, the ... we lost, and then Coop (EHS) '06, who had insisted on meeting up in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  everyday after school, spent all my money on art supplies, and absolutely ... am supposed to define myself now?" On the other side of the phone, my friend pauses thoughtfully for a few minutes and then begins to talk. The

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  research facility on campus that would be known as the Whitehead Institute ... ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... a gene is because of our newfound reliance on computers to find them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  cold air puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on your lungs. I wear an ... any one thing you should put on before stepping out, it’s a properly ... and I kid you not, it took a solid 90 minutes for my legs to thaw

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  substantial amount of college essays, but I have a couple things to say on the ... diarrhea and blab on about absolutely nothing) and she definitely helped me ... . 4) Don't procrastinate!! Putting things off until the last minute is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  now, many of you have probably procrastinated on making one of (what you ... one of the billion activities going on that weekend, or peeking into a ... parties on the weekend, couples (yea, people date, who would have thought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  things like MechaHitler, being on fire, a middle aged man on roller skates, raptor attacks, children on leashes, or chainsaws for hands? A hilarious ... Point Karaoke HELP! The board of directors will be here in a minute, and Arthur

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of ... winter on a 21st century MIT campus, so chances are that whatever she spent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  was on a mission. Since Matt Mcgann was occupied on the phone at the ... work on you this weekend." Well, right he was. When Matt Mcgann saw my ... outright broke my subpar Houston umbrella. (It had worked for going on 8

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  openings, film screenings… the list goes on! [annotation note="MIT School of ... an on-campus program called MIT Arts Scholars, we get exclusive access ... ] on practices of composition and choreography to create dynamic

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  people and even wrote college essays on the topic. Tragically, I am here ... "C's get degrees" and move on with my life as soon as possible. But ... thought I aced, passed a test I thought I got a 30% on, and had no clue on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... different positions. Sometimes, I work sprawled on my bed, usually when I ... , you definitely don’t want to know. A few times, I sit on the floor and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  at around 11pm, so every thirty minutes or so i have to get up to use ... on-field after a cardiac arrest. i’ve always been the kind of person to ... ’s beside the point - when you’re anxious you focus on these kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  loosened their grip on my leg muscles, enough that my mental map of what MIT ... your eyes on it and make sure you actually hit it, how you have to bend ... Field on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and I have to push myself to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  procrastinating on this. Feeling #1: Everyone seemed so comfortable with themselves ... /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... micronaps (or macronaps) in lecture. I also often sleep 10-12 hours on the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018