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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging ... able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still ... 's just in one direction. That's not insurmountable by any means, but it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  Wagner was many years ago, in a summer novel: an elegant, cultured but ... ; Juliet in the sense that both deal with romantic love unrequited because of ... active community of students with an exceptional interest in the arts. The

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and ... didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting ... existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!" Here, I am ... teenage dream. I've just always loved art and design and cities, and in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving ... . I noticed that my first two weeks in Albuquerque - when everything was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... poor people in Africa, it's not like being published is really in the ... nomadic devices, rest assured that the third author is in fact yours truly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me ... little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years

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

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship ... kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... in Green Bank, WV is located in the nation's only radio-quiet zone that spans approximately 15,000 square miles in area. (fact check!: 13,000 sq

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... Unni, how are you supposed to put the lock in the holder?" "You slide it in." "I am sliding it in." "Hold it so it looks like a U, not a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  impressive and inspiring and wonderful, etc. In the past few days, a few ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander ... later in the semester, but the dinners need to be in by late October for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , <3). There are many Mexican restaurants in the surrounding area (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students gave a presentation on the best Mexican restaurants in Boston, and in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel ... of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  first experimental class in the “standard” 8 path. Most 8s take it [annotation note="hence the Junior in the name"]Junior Fall[/annotation] after ... skills. Practically, this means many small tasks in areas such as

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file ... his reading applications in the four years I've worked in the office ... people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  i went to the ig nobels! (last year) (there is also a vlog)

  

  adventures I'll have over in Cloud Cuckoo Campus, where psets are fun and get done in a reasonable amount of time and I never have to sacrifice anything, ever. It's falling in love with someone you see once a year

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 4, 2026
• Blog / Summer

  Short Story from Last Summer

  

  in Seaport and living near Kenmore Station, so my daily commute is ... thick, like a sludge. In our long-sleeve button-downs, we wade through the ... must have been in the low sixties. Gray sky and gentle breeze. Everything

  • by Sara N. '28
  • June 11, 2026