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  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  scribbles and exactly one boxed answer, for a ratio of a miserable 11. Good ... get a feel for the cultures and communities behind the different dorms ... Year Residence Exchange) lottery. REX accounts for a healthy portion of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  applying for immigration and a master’s thesis. While there are people with ... now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing ... worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless ... signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... concept that you've struggled with for a long time. B. You remember the ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... 4 years at MIT, if you ever ask yourself, "Do I have time for a ... . Which, for me, is saying a lot. So if I'm gonna gather my youthful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  of for now). Something you chose yourself, with a preexisting culture ... closer-knit than a dorm of 350. Finally, for many people, the selection ... Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  reflected the languages thereof. For instance, one night I went to a ... Professional Formation; CFP for short). The CFP is a vocational school mostly ... CFP. Since English is a third or fourth language for most of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  focus. It's just that when I step back for a second, I realize that I ... listen. this current winter break I’ve been averaging about a bath per day ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... off for Veteran's Day, which helped a lot. The day before this was ... and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  and a sundress. In less than 48 hours, I will be in Houston, both for ... becomes pleasure, but often you have to grit your teeth for a long time ... then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone ... to give it another going over. This time we made time for a photo op ... track meet, so it mean a lot for them to come out to my final race. It was

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... do you mean, 'good morning'? Do you mean that it is a good morning for ... involved something about Obi-Wan searching for a "Kiber crystal" to amplify

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  admitted here?” question in a very bad way. Everyone was ready for spring ... . Spring break felt more like a gasp for breath than a vacation. I spent time ... nothing for a while. But they figured it out anyway. I have lived and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. They have a labyrinth there for no ... in high school, teenagers at a playground designed for 8-year-olds is ... in the front yard for hours at a time. But I got into MIT, so Sam's Mom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  . (For context: "cathartic screaming" is a popular tradition at MIT, often ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but I think I speak for every undergraduate when I say: holy fuck.  The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  is “a pioneer in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries ... students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post comes at a difficult college-choosing time. I hope that a look at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  for you and your burrito. Especially with ketchup. You see a long line ... enough underwear and know for a fact that those two other people going to ... but inevitably for the better, and that even though you're leaving a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  be possible for me to have four free hours per day. This is a pretty ... I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who ... for leaving so early, telling us that she went to a Harry Potter book

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  -use than make a Trashion piece? Make sure to look out for parts of her ... from a plastic covering for a box of water bottles with the broken glass ... Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015